Japan - Intentional self-harm 1973

Suicides Japan 1973

Japan has a very high suicide rate

In 1973 occurred 18,859 suicides in Japan. This year, 844 more people committed suicide than in 1972. In 1973, on average 52 Japanese committed suicide every day.

Japan had 17.3 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 11.95 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 18,859 recorded suicide cases in 1973, 10,730 were men suicides and 8,129 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 20 per 100,000 men and for women 14.6 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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Date	Female suicides	Male suicides	Suicides	Female suicide rate	Male suicide rate	Suicide rate
1973	8,129	10,730	18,859	14.60	20.00	17.30
1972	7,784	10,231	18,015	14.20	19.40	16.70
1971	7,082	9,157	16,239	13.10	17.60	15.30
1970	6,967	8,761	15,728	13.10	17.10	15.00
1969	6,603	8,241	14,844	12.50	16.20	14.30
1968	6,427	8,174	14,601	12.30	16.30	14.30
1967	6,181	7,940	14,121	12.00	16.00	14.00
1966	6,600	8,450	15,050	13.00	17.20	15.10
1965	6,114	8,330	14,444	12.10	17.10	14.60
1964	6,371	8,336	14,707	12.80	17.30	15.00
1963	6,567	8,923	15,490	13.30	18.70	16.00
1962	7,183	9,541	16,724	14.70	20.20	17.40
1961	8,113	10,333	18,446	16.70	22.10	19.40
1960	8,637	11,506	20,143	18.00	24.90	21.40

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