You're not going to see a significant suicide rate, if the people who might kill themselves, are killed by something else first. Mostly looking at NK.

As for China, their population is so large that almost any bad stat looks small. Zoom in on someplace like Hong Kong, and the stats go right back to concerning.

[–] umb_official@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hmm I wonder why Hong Kong specifically would have a concerning suicide rate

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps higher, because Hong Kong was under British imperialist control until recently, and was capitalist until recently, like Taiwan and South Korea are.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago

The increase is recent, and still rising.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago

You’re not going to see a significant suicide rate, if the people who might kill themselves, are killed by something else first.

Unless you have evidence that such a hypothetical is actually occurring, why float it?

As for China, their population is so large that almost any bad stat looks small.

That’s not how per capita rates work.

[–] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

But if per capita stat is small isn't it just a good thing in general? If you cut up the population groups into multiple population sized chunks with the compared countries, they each will still have a better number.

It's like we normalized stats PER CAPITA so population number don't really affect it!