Japan had 18.6 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 15.07 suicides per 100,000 people.
Japan is a country with a high rate of suicide.
Of the 22,795 recorded suicide cases in 1988, 14,290 were men suicides and 8,505 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 23.7 per 100,000 men and for women 13.6 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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