Japan - Intentional self-harm

By 1969, suicides in Japan increased by 243 people to at 14,844 suicides In 1969, on average 41 Japanese committed suicide every day.

In Japan there were 14.3 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 11.58 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 14,844 recorded suicide cases in 1969, 8,241 were men suicides and 6,603 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 16.2 per 100,000 men and for women 12.5 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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