In 1997 around 2,859 suicides occurred in Romania, 31 more than in 1996. In 1997, on average 8 Romanians committed suicide every day.
Romania reported 12.7 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 14.89 self-harm per 100.000 people.
Romania, has a relatively low rate of suicide per inhabitants.
Of the 2,859 recorded suicide cases in 1997, 2,375 were men suicides and 484 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 21.5 per 100,000 men and for women 4.2 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Romania suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 693 homicides in Romania, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 4.1 suicides.
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