Canada

Suicide rate in Canada

Suicide rate in Canada: 13.2 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 10.9 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates.

Latest, 2017
10.9 per 100,000 people
Since 1990
−2.3 per 100,000 people
Rank, 2017
73 of 195
counting from the highest
World, 2017
10 per 100,000 people
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deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

Suicide rate in CanadaSuicide rate in Canada: 13.2 per 100,000 people in 1990 and 10.9 per 100,000 people in 2017, by IHME estimates. The highest was 13.5 per 100,000 people in 1993, the lowest 10.7 per 100,000 people in 2011.
Estimates, IHMEWorld

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 13.5 per 100,000 people in 1993, the lowest 10.7 per 100,000 people in 2011.

Every year

deaths per 100,000 people · IHME

YearCanadaWorld
201710.910
201611.110.1
201511.310.2
201411.210.3
201310.810.5
201210.910.7
201110.711
201010.911.2
200911.111.4
200811.211.6
200711.211.7
200611.212
200511.612.5
200411.612.6
200311.912.8
200211.913
200112.113.4
200012.314.1
199912.814.5
199812.814.7
199713.115.1
199613.315.4
199513.415.9
199413.416.1
199313.516
199213.315.8
199113.215.5
199013.215.4

Good to know

  • Deaths by suicide in a year, per 100,000 people.
  • Source: IHME, Global Burden of Disease, via Our World in Data.
  • Ranks count the 195 countries with a value in 2017, highest first.
  • The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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