Kenya - Intentional self-harm

In 2004 occurred 2,309 suicides in Kenya. This year, 44 more people committed suicide than in 2003. In 2004, on average 6 Kenyans committed suicide every day.

Kenya had 7.02 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.53 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Of the 2,309 recorded suicide cases in 2004, 1,841 were men suicides and 468 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 10.66 per 100,000 men and for women 2.67 per 100,000 female.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Kenya suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 1,200 homicides in Kenya, suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 1.9 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Kenya
• Kenya economy
• Country suicides ranking