Japan - Intentional self-harm

By 1999, suicides in Japan increased by 342 people to at 31,413 suicides In 1999, on average 86 Japanese committed suicide every day.

In Japan there were 24.8 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 14.31 suicides per 100,000 people.

Japan has a very high suicide rate compared to other countries.

Of the 31,413 recorded suicide cases in 1999, 22,402 were men suicides and 9,011 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 36.1 per 100,000 men and for women 13.9 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 736 homicides in Japan, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 42.7 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Japan
• Japan economy
• Country suicides ranking