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by kasey_junk 2383 days ago
No they aren’t. Most recent data suggests that the US has twice the suicide rate of the U.K.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide...

Japan & Korea are interesting _because_ they are outliers.
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vorpalhex 2383 days ago
The US suicide rate per the CDC is 14/100k (2017). The UK suicide rate is 11/100k per the office of National statistics (2018).

I'm not sure why the Wikipedia page dramatically disagrees with the UK's own stats.

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nl 2383 days ago
The Wikipedia page uses WHO data, which is age-standardised. It's unclear if this explains the entire difference.

The WHO explanation is here: https://www.who.int/data/gho/indicator-metadata-registry/imr... and their data is here: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=en

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drchap 2383 days ago
According your source in 2016 the US suicide rate was 13.7 per 100,000 people. The UK was 7.6, so about half.

But, France was 12.1 and Ireland 10.9, not much less than the US. I don't think we can conclude from this data that access to firearms accounts for all or even most of the difference.

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