Ghana - Intentional self-harm

In 2003 occurred 1,358 suicides in Ghana. This year, 61 more people committed suicide than in 2002. In 2003, on average 4 Ghanaians committed suicide every day.

Ghana had 6.66 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.69 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Of the 1,358 recorded suicide cases in 2003, 1,094 were men suicides and 263 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 10.32 per 100,000 men and for women 2.45 per 100,000 female.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Ghana suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 436 homicides in Ghana, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 3.1 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Ghana
• Ghana economy
• Country suicides ranking