In 2004 around 1,603 suicides occurred in Venezuela, 216 less than in 2003. In 2004, on average 4 Venezuelans committed suicide every day.
Venezuela reported 6.16 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 10.53 self-harm per 100.000 people.
Of the 1,603 recorded suicide cases in 2004, 1,350 were men suicides and 254 were women. Men have a very high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 10.29 per 100,000 men and for women 1.94 per 100,000 female.
Suicide is a very important cause of death in the world and also in Venezuela. However, in Venezuela in 2004 there were there were 9,719 homicides, many more than suicides. There were 6.1 homicides per suicide.
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