In 1998 around 31,755 suicides occurred in Japan, 8,261 more than in 1997. In 1998, on average 87 Japanese committed suicide every day.
Japan reported 25.1 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 14.84 suicides per 100,000 people.
Japan has a very high suicide rate compared to other countries.
Of the 31,755 recorded suicide cases in 1998, 22,349 were men suicides and 9,406 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 36.1 per 100,000 men and for women 14.6 per 100,000 female In spite of this, it is the country 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 775 homicides in Japan, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 41 suicides.
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