Mexico - Intentional self-harm

In 1989 occurred 1,876 suicides in Mexico. This year, 160 more people committed suicide than in 1988. In 1989, on average 5 Mexicans committed suicide every day.

Mexico had 2.3 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 14.93 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Mexico has a low suicide rate compared to other countries.

Of the 1,876 recorded suicide cases in 1989, 1,586 were men suicides and 290 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 3.9 per 100,000 men and for women 0.7 per 100,000 female.

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