South Korea - Intentional self-harm

In 2010 occurred 15,566 suicides in South Korea. This year, 154 more people committed suicide than in 2009. In 2010, on average 43 South Koreans committed suicide every day.

South Korea had 31.4 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 9.89 suicides per 100,000 people.

South Korea has a very high suicide rate compared to other countries.

Of the 15,566 recorded suicide cases in 2010, 10,329 were men suicides and 5,237 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 41.5 per 100,000 men and for women 21.2 per 100,000 female In spite of this, it is the country with the highest female suicide rate in the world.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In South Korea suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 485 homicides in South Korea, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 32.1 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in South Korea
• South Korea economy
• Country suicides ranking