Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says | CNN
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The suicide rate in the United States spiked in 2021, reversing two years of decline, and rates among older men were especially high, a new report says.

Senior men have higher rates of suicide than average, and firearms were involved in more than three-quarters of those deaths in 2021, according to a CDC report

  • SupraMario@lemmy.world
    103·
    11 months ago

    Uhh Japan’s rate is 16.5 vs the USAs 14… they most definitely have a higher rate of suicide. I don’t even know how you think we have a lower rate than they do.

    • Skyketcher@lemmy.world
      21·
      11 months ago

      The Wikipedia page has 2 tables the one that says ‘latest’ from the WHO has the US higher and the one that includes multiple sources and older data has Japan higher