Netherlands - Intentional self-harm

In 1996 occurred 1,577 suicides in Netherlands. This year, 66 more people committed suicide than in 1995. In 1996, on average 4 Dutch committed suicide every day.

Netherlands had 10.2 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 15.06 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Netherlands, has a relatively low rate of suicide per inhabitants.

Of the 1,577 recorded suicide cases in 1996, 1,043 were men suicides and 534 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 13.6 per 100,000 men and for women 6.8 per 100,000 female.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Netherlands suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 211 homicides in Netherlands, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 7.5 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Netherlands
• Netherlands economy
• Country suicides ranking