Switzerland - Intentional self-harm

In 1989 occurred 1,513 suicides in Switzerland. This year, 37 more people committed suicide than in 1988. In 1989, on average 4 Swiss committed suicide every day.

Switzerland had 22.8 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 14.93 suicides per 100,000 people.

Switzerland has a very high suicide rate compared to other countries.

Of the 1,513 recorded suicide cases in 1989, 1,063 were men suicides and 450 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 32.8 per 100,000 men and for women 13.2 per 100,000 female. In spite of this, it is one of the countries with the highest female suicide rate in the world.

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