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The US suicide rate per the CDC is 14/100k (2017). The UK suicide rate is 11/100k per the office of National statistics (2018). I'm not sure why the Wikipedia
by vorpalhex 7y ago
The US suicide rate per the CDC is 14/100k (2017). The UK suicide rate is 11/100k per the office of National statistics (2018).
I'm not sure why the Wikipedia page dramatically disagrees with the UK's own stats.
- nl 7y agoThe Wikipedia page uses WHO data, which is age-standardised. It's unclear if this explains the entire difference. The WHO explanation is here: https://www.who.int/data/gho/indicator-metadata-registry/imr-details/78 https://www.who.int/data/gho/indicator-metadata-registry/imr... and their data is here: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=en http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=en