Thailand - Intentional self-harm

In 2003 occurred 7,962 suicides in Thailand. This year, 298 more people committed suicide than in 2002. In 2003, on average 22 Thai committed suicide every day.

Thailand had 12.33 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 10.69 suicides per 100,000 people.

Of the 7,962 recorded suicide cases in 2003, 5,308 were men suicides and 2,654 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 16.65 per 100,000 men and for women 8.07 per 100,000 female.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Thailand suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 6,434 homicides in Thailand, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.2 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in Thailand
• Thailand economy
• Country suicides ranking