Japan - Intentional self-harm

By 1972, suicides in Japan increased by 1,776 people to at 18,015 suicides In 1972, on average 49 Japanese committed suicide every day.

In Japan there were 16.7 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 11.98 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 18,015 recorded suicide cases in 1972, 10,231 were men suicides and 7,784 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 19.4 per 100,000 men and for women 14.2 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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