Japan - Intentional self-harm

By 1971, suicides in Japan increased by 511 people to at 16,239 suicides In 1971, on average 44 Japanese committed suicide every day.

In Japan there were 15.3 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 11.63 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 16,239 recorded suicide cases in 1971, 9,157 were men suicides and 7,082 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 17.6 per 100,000 men and for women 13.1 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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