The number of people dying by suicide in Spain has fallen for the third year in a row, according to figures released by the Ministry of Health on Thursday.
Some 3,808 suicides were recorded in 2025, down from 3,953 in 2024, 4,116 in 2023 and 4,227 in 2022.
If the provisional figures are confirmed, it would represent a fall of almost 10% over three years.
Spain’s suicide mortality rate has also fallen.
In 2024, the rate stood at 8.09 deaths per 100,000 inhabitants, when 2,902 men and 1,051 women died by suicide.
The provisional figure for 2025 puts the rate at 7.71 per 100,000 people.
The Ministry of Health stressed that the latest statistics remain provisional.
Spain to create national suicide register
The figures were released as the Spanish government prepares to establish a State Suicide Register designed to provide authorities with more detailed and consistent information.
The Ministry of Health is preparing a royal decree regulating a new Mental Health Surveillance System, with the suicide register set to become its first specific monitoring instrument.
The register will bring together information from healthcare, statistical and forensic sources to provide a clearer picture of suicide and the factors associated with it.
Authorities hope it will allow them to detect clusters of cases, identify emerging methods and spot changes in trends more quickly.
The information could then be used to target prevention policies, improve healthcare responses and strengthen support for people considered at risk.
The wider Mental Health Surveillance System will become part of Spain’s State Public Health Surveillance Network.
It will include a central unit coordinating with regional authorities and a technical committee tasked with establishing common procedures across the country.
Health officials say the aim is to create more consistent and comparable indicators while improving research and allowing prevention measures to be targeted more precisely.
Despite the latest decline, 3,808 people dying by suicide in a single year equates to an average of more than 10 deaths every day.
