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Clicking through the links, the stats on suicide rates surprised me significantly. It's true that Japan has relatively high suicide rates compared to my country
by ashtonkem 6y ago
Clicking through the links, the stats on suicide rates surprised me significantly. It's true that Japan has relatively high suicide rates compared to my country (America) with an age adjusted rate of 14.3 vs 13.7 incidents per 100,000 (2016 numbers). But those numbers were both closer, and far below a number of other OECD countries that I wouldn't normally consider to be areas with high rates of suicide. A few examples include Estonia (14.4), Belgium (15.7), Latvia (17.2), Ukraine (18.5), and Lithuania (25.7).
- DanBC 6y agoDo they all count suicide using the same definition? Are they age-standardised or not? In the UK suicide stats come from ONS, and they count: > all deaths from intentional self-harm for persons aged 10 years and over and deaths caused by injury or poisoning where the intent was undetermined for those aged 15 years and over. The US uses > Death caused by self-directed injurious behavior with an intent to die as a result of the behavior. (but not for people under 9 years old). Including "intent" means the numbers end up being pretty different.
- ashtonkem 6y agoI believe that the age adjustment is designed to compensate for that, but I’m no expert.