In 1991 around 19,875 suicides occurred in Japan, 213 less than in 1990. In 1991, on average 54 Japanese committed suicide every day.
Japan reported 16 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 15.11 suicides per 100,000 people.
Japan is a country with a high rate of suicide.
Of the 19,875 recorded suicide cases in 1991, 12,477 were men suicides and 7,398 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 20.5 per 100,000 men and for women 11.7 per 100,000 female. In spite of this, it is one of the countries with the highest female suicide rate in the world.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Japan suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 639 homicides in Japan, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 31.1 suicides.
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