In Uruguay there were 17.85 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 9.87 suicides per 100,000 people.
Uruguay is a country with a high rate of suicide.
Of the 612 recorded suicide cases in 2012, 489 were men suicides and 122 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 30.07 per 100,000 men and for women 7.02 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Uruguay suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 267 homicides in Uruguay, suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 2.3 suicides.
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