- 14 Mar 2020 04:36
#15075098
Here's a statistic that may be surprising to some people.
The Japanese have a reputation of having a high suicide rate, but actually the suicide rate in Japan is lower than the suicide rate for white Americans in the US.
suicide rate for Japan, as of 2016, 14.3 (per 100,000)
suicide rate for white Americans, as of 2016, 15.7
and it climbed to 16.84 as of 2018
sources:
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/03/trends-suicide
https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
The Japanese have a reputation of having a high suicide rate, but actually the suicide rate in Japan is lower than the suicide rate for white Americans in the US.
suicide rate for Japan, as of 2016, 14.3 (per 100,000)
suicide rate for white Americans, as of 2016, 15.7
and it climbed to 16.84 as of 2018
sources:
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2019/03/trends-suicide
https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/