The province of Las Palmas exceeds the world average of mortality by suicide. Along with this, there are another 25 of the 42 provinces and autonomous cities that are above the world average. Las Palmas, Galicia, Andalusia, Castilla y León and Aragón present the highest rates in all of Spain, although in Melilla, Lérida, Palencia, Zamora and Navarra is where it has increased the most since the beginning of the pandemic.
Every day of 2021, eleven people took their own lives in our country, a total of 4,003 deaths from this cause, which results in a rate of 8.45 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, very close to the world average set by the WHO, which is 9.
However, according to the report "Evolution of suicide in Spain in this millennium (2000-2021)" carried out by researchers from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), the Biomedical Research Center in Mental Health Network (Cibersam) and the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona, more than half of the country is above that average.
Thus, 21 provinces of nine communities -Galicia, Asturias, Castilla y León, Andalucía, Cataluña, Comunidad Valenciana, Castilla-La Mancha, Aragón and Canarias) and, in some cases widely, the 10 suicides/100,000 inhabitants.
Lugo is the one with the highest rate, of 15.6, followed by Zamora (14.2) and Jaén (13.1); A Coruña and Asturias both presented 12.93; Soria (12.30); Cuenca (12.06); Las Palmas (11.81); Málaga (11.67); Córdoba (11.65); Palencia (11.35); Huesca (11.29); Teruel (11.25); Pontevedra (11.24); Granada (11.20); Burgos (11); Castellón (10.57); Ourense (10.49); Girona; (10.47); León (10.11); Ávila (10.05).
And above the world average of 9 are also Almería (9.57); Ciudad Real (9.55); Tarragona (9.26); Navarra (9.12) and Cádiz (9.06).
On the extreme side are Guadalajara and Madrid, with rates of 4.52 and 5.3/100,000 inhabitants, respectively.
However, if we look at the increase, between 2020 and 2021 the most significant increases occurred in Melilla (29.1%), Lérida (26.1%), Palencia (22.5%), Zamora (22.5%) and Navarra (16.8%). On the contrary, in another 22 they decreased, where more in Segovia (25.8% less); Bizkaia (13.7%); Guadalajara (13.4%) and Ávila (12.7%).
