
Number of suicides in Italy 2000-2019, by gender
hanging and asphyxiation both among men and women.
In 2019, the number of individuals who took their life in Italy amounted to 3,759, with almost three thousand deaths by suicide among men. The number of suicides has fluctuated since the 2000s and a clear trend cannot be identified except for the constantly higher proportion of men taking their life. In 2019, most suicides were carried out by