Labrador Suicide Rate
- News Staff
- Jan 22, 2017
- 1 min read
The suicide rate in Labrador is twenty times higher among the Inuit then those who are non-Indigenous.
Results from the same study showed that the rate is fourteen times higher for Innu people compared to non-Indigenous people.
The study is from Statistics Canada with reports over 17 years ending in 2009.
They show a suicide rate of 165 Inuit deaths per year for every 100,000 people and 114 for the Innu, compared to eight in Newfoundland.
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