@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agoUS suicides hit an all-time high last yearapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square12arrow-up1203arrow-down14cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-squareValdairlinkfedilink14•edit-21 year agoLooks like it is basically not changed. I downloaded the data and compared it against US population census data from https://population.un.org/wpp/ Year 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (forecasted) Suicides 4.834x10^4 4.751x10^4 4.598x10^4 4.818x10^4 4.945x10^4 5.029x10^4 Population 3.321x10^8 3.343x10^8 3.359x10^8 3.370x10^8 3.383x10^8 3.400x10^8 Rate per 100k 14.6 14.2 13.7 14.3 14.6 14.8 If anything it dipped during the pandemic and is returning to “normal” (although I can’t see before 2018).
Looks like it is basically not changed. I downloaded the data and compared it against US population census data from https://population.un.org/wpp/
If anything it dipped during the pandemic and is returning to “normal” (although I can’t see before 2018).
So, still an all-time high.
Correct, and increasing at an alarming rate