Rwanda had 9.78 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 10 self-harm per 100.000 people.
Of the 949 recorded suicide cases in 2009, 824 were men suicides and 125 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 16.97 per 100,000 men and for women 2.41 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Rwanda suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 144 homicides in Rwanda, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 6.6 suicides.
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