Canada - Intentional self-harm

In 1961 occurred 1,366 suicides in Canada. This year, 16 more people committed suicide than in 1960. In 1961, on average 4 Canadians committed suicide every day.

Canada had 7.3 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, much less than the average suicide in the world, of 11.25 self-harm per 100.000 people.

Canada has a low suicide rate compared to other countries.

Of the 1,366 recorded suicide cases in 1961, 1,098 were men suicides and 268 were women. Men have a high rate of death by suicide compared with women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 11.6 per 100,000 men and for women 2.9 per 100,000 female.

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