Japan - Intentional self-harm

By 1963, suicides in Japan increased by 1,234 people to at 15,490 suicides In 1963, on average 42 Japanese committed suicide every day.

In Japan there were 16 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 11.22 suicides per 100,000 people.

Japan, has a relatively low rate of suicide per inhabitants.

Of the 15,490 recorded suicide cases in 1963, 8,923 were men suicides and 6,567 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 18.7 per 100,000 men and for women 13.3 per 100,000 female. In spite of this, it is one of the countries with the highest female suicide rate in the world.

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