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The quick search I just made for suicide rate per capita shows the rate in Singapore is kinda average.
by forktheif 13y ago
The quick search I just made for suicide rate per capita shows the rate in Singapore is kinda average.
- fvrghl 13y ago"The suicide rate in Singapore is rising at an unprecedented rate of 29% a year. With people between the age of 20-29, the increase is a horrifying 80%." The author said that it is rising rapidly, not that it is currently high.
- forktheif 13y agoYup, I did read the article. But thanks for the recap
- VMG 13y agoIndeed. In a few decades the suicide rate will be 200%.
- jpatokal 13y ago{{citation needed}} for both those figures. Sure, Singapore's education system is pretty brutal, but it's nowhere near as hardcore as (say) South Korea or China.
- Graham24 13y agoyeah, whenever I see a stat like 'such-and-such has risen by x%!' and it does not give the absolute figures, I always assume the author is trying to exaggerate and mislead (not that I'm saying this one is).
- DannyDover 13y agoHi forktheif, I am the author of this article. The wikipedia article on suicide rates (which I am assuming you found via google) uses data from 2009 as its source. The article I wrote uses data from 2011 (which is the most recently available.) More details here: http://www.lifelisted.com/blog/happens-everything-goes-right/#comment-33773 http://www.lifelisted.com/blog/happens-everything-goes-right...
- HeXetic 13y agoCan't you link to those numbers?