In 2019 around 7,223 suicides occurred in Mexico, 415 more than in 2018. In 2019, on average 20 Mexicans committed suicide every day.
Mexico reported 5.6 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 9.37 self-harm per 100.000 people.
Of the 7,223 recorded suicide cases in 2019, 5,831 were men suicides and 1,300 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 9.4 per 100,000 men and for women 2 per 100,000 female.
Suicide is a very important cause of death in the world and also in Mexico. However, in Mexico in 2019 there were there were 36,661 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 5.1 homicides per suicide.
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