Nigeria - Intentional self-harm

By 2002, suicides in Nigeria increased by 49 people to at 12,469 suicides In 2002, on average 34 Nigerians committed suicide every day.

In Nigeria there were 9.7 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.78 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Of the 12,469 recorded suicide cases in 2002, 8,912 were men suicides and 3,557 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 13.68 per 100,000 men and for women 5.52 per 100,000 female.

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