Rwanda - Intentional self-harm

In 2003 occurred 929 suicides in Rwanda. This year, 9 more people committed suicide than in 2002. On average, there are 3 suicides per day.

Rwanda had 11.19 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 10.69 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 929 recorded suicide cases in 2003, 822 were men suicides and 107 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 19.99 per 100,000 men and for women 2.4 per 100,000 female.

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