In 1997 around 30,535 suicides occurred in United States, 368 less than in 1996. In 1997, on average 84 Americans committed suicide every day.
United States reported 11.2 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, less than the average suicide in the world, of 14.89 self-harm per 100.000 people.
United States, has a relatively low rate of suicide per inhabitants.
Of the 30,535 recorded suicide cases in 1997, 24,492 were men suicides and 6,043 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 18.3 per 100,000 men and for women 4.3 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 18,208 homicides in United States, there are more suicides than homicides. For every homicide there were 1.7 suicides.
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