In 1996 around 5,446 suicides occurred in Poland, 53 less than in 1995. In 1996, on average 15 Poles committed suicide every day.
Poland reported 14.1 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 15.06 self-harm per 100.000 people.
Poland is a country with a high rate of suicide.
Of the 5,446 recorded suicide cases in 1996, 4,537 were men suicides and 909 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 24.1 per 100,000 men and for women 4.6 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Poland suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 873 homicides in Poland, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 6.2 suicides.
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