Japan - Intentional self-harm

By 1975, suicides in Japan increased by 870 people to at 19,975 suicides In 1975, on average 55 Japanese committed suicide every day.

In Japan there were 17.8 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 12.15 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 19,975 recorded suicide cases in 1975, 11,744 were men suicides and 8,231 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 21.3 per 100,000 men and for women 14.5 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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