GiddyGap@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agoUS suicides hit an all-time high last yearapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1192arrow-down13cross-posted to: us_news
arrow-up1189arrow-down1external-linkUS suicides hit an all-time high last yearapnews.comGiddyGap@lemm.ee to News@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square13fedilinkcross-posted to: us_news
minus-squareValdair@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up13·edit-211 months 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).
minus-squareChozo@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·11 months agoSo, still an all-time high.
minus-squareAlto@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·edit-211 months agoCorrect, and increasing at an alarming rate
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