In 1994 around 31,142 suicides occurred in United States, 40 more than in 1993. In 1994, on average 85 Americans committed suicide every day.
United States reported 11.8 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 15.83 self-harm per 100.000 people.
United States, has a relatively low rate of suicide per inhabitants.
Of the 31,142 recorded suicide cases in 1994, 25,174 were men suicides and 5,968 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 19.6 per 100,000 men and for women 4.4 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 23,326 homicides in United States, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.3 suicides.
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