In 1999 around 3,339 suicides occurred in Mexico, 3 less than in 1998. In 1999, on average 9 Mexicans committed suicide every day.
Mexico reported 3.4 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 14.31 self-harm per 100.000 people.
Mexico has a low suicide rate compared to other countries.
Of the 3,339 recorded suicide cases in 1999, 2,830 were men suicides and 509 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 5.9 per 100,000 men and for women 1 per 100,000 female.
Suicide is a very important cause of death in the world and also in Mexico. However, in Mexico in 1999 there were there were 12,249 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 3.7 homicides per suicide.
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