Japan - Intentional self-harm 1978

Suicides Japan 1978

Japan has a very high suicide rate

By 1978, suicides in Japan increased by 70 people to at 20,199 suicides In 1978, on average 55 Japanese committed suicide every day.

In Japan there were 17.5 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 12.98 suicides per 100,000 people.

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

Of the 20,199 recorded suicide cases in 1978, 12,409 were men suicides and 7,790 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 21.9 per 100,000 men and for women 13.3 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
1978	7,790	12,409	20,199	13.30	21.90	17.50
1977	7,970	12,299	20,269	13.70	21.90	17.80
1976	8,042	11,744	19,786	14.00	21.10	17.50
1975	8,231	11,744	19,975	14.50	21.30	17.80
1974	8,382	10,723	19,105	14.90	19.70	17.30
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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