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Canada, a country with a comparatively low suicide rate overall at 10.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, exhibits one such discrepancy. When comparing the suicide rate of Indigenous peoples in Canada, the rate of suicide increases to 24.3 incidents per 100,000 people in 2016, [18] a rate among the ten highest in the world.
Suicidology is the scientific study of suicidal behaviour, the causes of suicidalness and suicide prevention. [1] Every year, about one million people die by suicide, which is a mortality rate of sixteen per 100,000 or one death every forty seconds. [2] Suicidologists believe that suicide is largely preventable with the right actions, knowledge ...
With 4% of the world's population, the US had 44% of global gun suicides in 2019, and the highest rate per capita. [211] Approximately 1.4% of people die by suicide, a mortality rate of 11.6 per 100,000 persons per year. [6][19] Suicide resulted in 842,000 deaths in 2013 up from 712,000 deaths in 1990. [18]
From 2000 to 2020, more than 800,000 people died by suicide in the United States. Males represented 78.7% of all suicides between 2000 and 2020. [ 2 ] In 2022, a record high 49,500 people died by suicide. [ 7 ] The 2022 rate was the highest level since 1941, at 14.3 per 100,000 persons. [ 8 ]
On the other hand, New Jersey, has the lowest suicide rate with 7.1 deaths per 100,000 people. [11] Rural and urban areas show differences as well. "The suicide rate is nearly twice as great in the most rural areas of the U.S. compared to the most urban areas (18.9 per 100,000 people in rural areas vs. 13.2 per 100,000 people in urban areas)."
This group had the highest age-adjusted 2021 suicide rate and experienced the highest relative percentage change from 2018 to 2021 (from 22.3 to 28.1 per 100,000), the CDC data said.
Bähr, Andreas. "Between “Self-Murder” and “Suicide”: The Modern Etymology of Self-Killing." Journal of Social History 46.3 (2013): 620-632. Argues Suicide” is a modern concept—emerging in English in 1650s and in French and Spanish in late 18th century. Crocker, Lester G. "The discussion of suicide in the eighteenth century."
In 2020, people in the US had a suicide rate of 13.5 per 100,000. [6] Suicide was a leading cause of death in the United States accounting for 48,183 deaths in 2021. [7] Suicide rates increased by 30 per cent from 2000-2018 and declined in 2019 and 2020. [7] Suicide remains a significant public health issue worldwide, despite prevention efforts ...