In 2002 around 6,964 suicides occurred in Indonesia, 193 more than in 2001. In 2002, on average 19 Indonesians committed suicide every day.
Indonesia reported 3.28 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.78 self-harm per 100.000 people.
Indonesia, has a relatively low rate of suicide per inhabitants.
Of the 6,964 recorded suicide cases in 2002, 5,017 were men suicides and 1,947 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 4.53 per 100,000 men and for women 1.78 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Indonesia suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 2,204 homicides in Indonesia, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 3.2 suicides.
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