Global suicide prevalence rates

BY A STAFF REPORTER: European and American societies have higher male suicide rates than any other, while Asians have much lower rates. According to recent data provided by the WHO, about 40,000 women out of three hundred thousand female suicides worldwide, and 150,000 men out of half a million male suicides worldwide, intentionally kill themselves every year in Europe and America (comprising about 30 percent of the world). As of 2015, apart from a few South and East Asian countries where twenty percent of the world's population lives, Morocco, Lesotho and two Caribbean countries, suicide rates are higher worldwide due to changing gender roles. Men than women. In Western countries, men are about 300% or three times more likely to die by suicide than women, with some countries (over 100 million inhabitants) exceeding 600%. The most significant differences in the male-female suicide ratio are noted in the countries of the former Soviet bloc and in some Latin American countries. Globally, eight countries had higher female suicide rates in 2015. Women are 30% more likely than men to commit suicide in China (about a fifth of the world's population) and up to 60% in other South Asian countries: the overall South Asian (including Southeast Asia, a third of the world's population) age-adjusted ratio, however, was the global average. 1.7 : 1 (men are about 70% more likely to die by suicide than women).

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