In 1992 around 20,893 suicides occurred in Japan, 1,018 more than in 1991. In 1992, on average 57 Japanese committed suicide every day.
Japan reported 16.8 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 15.38 suicides per 100,000 people.
Japan is a country with a high rate of suicide.
Of the 20,893 recorded suicide cases in 1992, 13,516 were men suicides and 7,377 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 22.1 per 100,000 men and for women 11.6 per 100,000 female.
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 673 homicides in Japan, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 31 suicides.
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