Mexico - Intentional self-harm

In 1986 occurred 1,728 suicides in Mexico. This year, 162 more people committed suicide than in 1985. In 1986, on average 5 Mexicans committed suicide every day.

Mexico had 2.2 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 15.39 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Mexico has a low suicide rate compared to other countries.

Of the 1,728 recorded suicide cases in 1986, 1,457 were men suicides and 271 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 3.8 per 100,000 men and for women 0.7 per 100,000 female.

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