I decided to calculate the male-to-female suicide rates per country

kanuk876 · 2011-06-10T05:48:40+00:00

These stats only track confirmed suicides. For example, single-person accidents are generally not considered suicides; driving a speeding car into an embankment is a common way to commit suicide.

If the real suicide rate was known, the male:female ratio would be skewed more.

neofool · 2011-06-10T07:30:05+00:00

Just curious. I've seen numerous PSAs and campaigns trying to stop suicide among women and girls, has anyone seen one targeted at men?

SarahC · 2011-06-10T05:09:39+00:00

Here's some highlights for those who don't want to DL the excel file.

Worst Offenders

Almost Equal

docodine · 2011-06-10T02:34:37+00:00

This was done real quick. All rates are per 100,000 people per year. Source is wikipedia.

Edit: The excel file is available at rapidshare. If you can't use rapidshare for some reason, PM me your email or suggest some other website I can upload it to.

Edit 2:Source 1

Source 2

510DustMite · 2011-06-10T05:13:58+00:00

Interesting... Out of curiosity, what does the other side of the graph look like? Thought it might be interesting to compare some of the factors in nations with higher rates for women, but there are only 34 nations included here... (seeing the same limited data on the excel doc as in the imgr link.)

tyrghast · 2011-06-10T09:56:42+00:00

WTF is going on in Hungary

Kill_The_Rich · 2011-06-10T12:31:52+00:00

I would love to see this with an added axis of per capita GDP of the countries. Any of you Excel wizards want to give it a go?

nolotusnotes · 2011-06-10T02:41:11+00:00

Can I have that file for a second or two?

meosoft · 2011-06-10T09:27:17+00:00

I'm from slovakia, I just checked with the official sources online and it seems that your data is approximately correct (i checked for 2009) For 2009 it was nearly 10 men to 1 woman. Not good!

2011-06-10T10:08:38+00:00

I am a Hungarian male. o_0

BTW nobody I know or heard about personally (i.e. not in the news or from history) have committed suicide. Could be a countryside thing maybe, I know only the capitol.

Sh00p · 2011-06-10T11:42:39+00:00

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Zaxian · 2011-06-10T12:38:14+00:00

From a number standpoint you have too many decimals in your final comparison. Your original rates are one decimal (I'm guessing +/- 0.05). Comparing male to female rates you would lose at least another magnitude of accuracy. The best you get away with is one decimal point in the final comparison.

murraygf35 · 2011-06-10T13:48:17+00:00

Men have a higher rate because they aren't pussies basically, and they will actually do it. women attempt to get attention and won't normally have the guts to do it.

2011-06-10T15:04:21+00:00

This phenomenon is pretty widely known in the psychology field, and is discussed in entry level psychology course. Women in general attempted suicide more often than men do, by a pretty big margin. The only difference is the way in which men and women commit suicide. Men typically go the very violent, and instant death route like shooting themselves, jumping out a window or in front of a car/bus/train, hanging, etc. Women on the other hand are typically less violent in their attempts and typically try to overdose, carbon-monoxide asphyxiation, and sometimes self-exsanguination(in combination with ODing commonly) but that is about as violent as they get. As women tend to try the less violent and near instant death route, they can not only fail more often, but can often be saved my medical intervention. With most male suicides there isn't much you can do bu clean up the mess.

The problem with PSAs and such dealing with issues like this, targeting only one group(be it men, women, blacks, whites, etc.) is that it has the negative effect of marginalizing the non-target group(think how DV PSAs have marginalized male DV victims), so there is really no good way to go about it other than just increasing the gender/race/everything neutral campaigns.

p.s.: The Wikipedia article Gender and Suicide has some pretty good information on it.

KrishanuAR · 2011-06-10T10:03:45+00:00

Eastern Europe must really suck.

xmod2 · 2011-06-10T14:32:54+00:00

It's be interesting to also break it down by age. I've heard there is an increased rate of suicide among older divorced males vs divorced females. The female seems to be content with the children.

Filter_Free · 2011-06-10T04:37:51+00:00

Can you do one of these for attempted suicide?

2011-06-10T10:48:09+00:00

Looks like Spanish speakers are pretty chill.

bobloco76 · 2011-06-10T04:44:55+00:00

Bitches man!

therealxris · 2011-06-10T15:08:57+00:00

..why?

Also, what does this have to do with mens rights?

Title	I decided to calculate the male-to-female suicide rates per country
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Date	June 10, 2011 2:33 AM UTC (15 years ago)
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