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Suicides. By sex. Provinces

Suicides. By sex. Provinces 2022
Barcelona Girona Lleida Tarragona Catalonia Spain % Cat./Spa.
Total 435 79 29 71 614 4,227 14.5
Men 305 61 21 53 440 3,126 14.1
Women 130 18 8 18 174 1,101 15.8
Source: INE. Death Statistic according to Cause of Death.
Note: Deaths assigned to suicide ( intentional self-harm, ICD-10 X60-X84 codes).

Last update: December 19, 2023.

Methodological note

Methodological aspects

Death Statistics by cause of death from Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INE), provide annual information on deaths occurring in Spain in relation with the principal cause, in accordance with the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) of the World Health Organization (WHO). The 10th version of this classification has been used since 1999.

This is a harmonized European statistic which is backed up by Regulation (EU) No. 328/2011 of the Commission, dated April 5 2011, in relation with statistics on the causes of death.

The original source of the data is the unified Medical Death Certificate/Statistical Death Bulletin, with which the death is registered in the Civil Registry. In the case of deaths within the first 24 hours of life, the information from the Medical Death Certificate is supplemented by information from the Statistical Birth Bulletin. In the case of deaths where the law intervenes, the source of information is the Statistical Legal Death Bulletin completed by the courts or the information provided directly by the Institutes of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.

When the value is lower than that of the minimum unit to be able to estimate the statistical operation or if it effects statistical confidentiality, the symbol used is "..".