In 1990 around 30,906 suicides occurred in United States, 674 more than in 1989. In 1990, on average 85 Americans committed suicide every day.
United States reported 12.4 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 14.95 self-harm per 100.000 people.
United States, has a relatively low rate of suicide per inhabitants.
Of the 30,906 recorded suicide cases in 1990, 24,724 were men suicides and 6,182 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 20.3 per 100,000 men and for women 4.8 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In United States suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 23,438 homicides in United States, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.3 suicides.
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