In 2003 around 3,979 suicides occurred in United Kingdom, 138 less than in 2002. In 2003, on average 11 British committed suicide every day.
United Kingdom reported 6.7 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.69 self-harm per 100.000 people.
Of the 3,979 recorded suicide cases in 2003, 3,050 were men suicides and 929 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 10.5 per 100,000 men and for women 3 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In United Kingdom suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 926 homicides in United Kingdom, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 4.3 suicides.
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