Le suicide au Québec : 1981 à 2019: Mise à jour 2022

Year: 2022 Source: Québec, QC: Bureau d’information et d’études en santé des populations, Institut national de santé publique du Québec. (2022). 56 p. SIEC No: 20220093

According to data for 2019, 1,128 people took their own lives in Quebec. That’s a crude suicide rate of 13.3 per 100,000 people. The suicide rate appears to be plateauing after declining for several years. In Quebec, suicide represents 1.7% of all deaths for the years 2017-2019. It is the 7th leading cause of death in the province. The suicide rate is three times higher among men than among women.

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Levesque, P., Genest, C., & Rassy, J.