In 2003 around 15,512 suicides occurred in Ukraine, 256 less than in 2002. In 2003, on average 42 Ukrainians committed suicide every day.
Ukraine reported 32.7 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 10.69 suicides per 100,000 people.
Ukraine has a very high suicide rate compared to other countries.
Of the 15,512 recorded suicide cases in 2003, 12,779 were men suicides and 2,734 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 58.28 per 100,000 men and for women 10.71 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Ukraine suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 4,041 homicides in Ukraine, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 3.8 suicides.
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