In 2019 around 4,010 suicides occurred in Canada, 201 more than in 2018. In 2019, on average 11 Canadians committed suicide every day.
Canada reported 10.7 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, above the world average of 9.37 suicides per 100,000 people.
Of the 4,010 recorded suicide cases in 2019, 3,057 were men suicides and 953 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 16.4 per 100,000 men and for women 5 per 100,000 female.
Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In Canada suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 689 homicides in Canada, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 5.8 suicides.
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