Cordoba Province Exceeds Global Average for Suicide Mortality: Study by UCM and Cibersam

Córdoba It is one of the ten provinces of Spain that exceeds the global average for suicide mortalityaccording 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 Mental Health Network Biomedical Research Center (Cibersam) and the Hospital del Mar in Barcelona.

In this case, the average registered in the whole province of Cordoba is 11.65while the world average set by the World Health Organization (WHO) is 9.

Up to 26 of the 52 provinces and autonomous cities exceed the world average for suicide mortality, and Galicia, Andalusia, Castilla y León and Aragón are those with the highest rates in all of Spain, although in Melilla, Lérida, Palencia , Zamora and Navarra is where it has increased the most since the start of the pandemic.

Every day of 2021, eleven people took their lives in our country, a total of 4,003 deaths from this cause, which gives a rate of 8.45 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, already very close to the world average set by the WHO. The aforementioned report reveals that more than half of Spain are 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, 10 suicides/100,000 inhabitants.

Lugo is the one with the highest rate, 15.6, followed by Zamora (14.2) and Jaén (13.1); A Coruña and Asturias both presented 12.93; Soria (12.30); Basin (12.06); Las Palmas (11.81); Malaga (11.67); Cordoba (11.65); Palencia (11.35); Huesca (11.29); Teruel (11.25); Pontevedra (11.24); Granada (11.20); Burgos (11); Castellon (10.57); Ourense (10.49); Girona; (10.47); Leon (10.11); Avila (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 the increase is considered, 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); Biscay (13.7%); Guadalajara (13.4%) and Ávila (12.7%).