While most countries have been declining suicide rates, the US witnesses the opposite. In contrast to the global numbers, in recent decades, in that country, suicides have risen almost 30%.
As Suicide rates decreased significantly around the world in recent decades. However, some countries, including the US, have rates climbing on opposite trend lines, putting the late world of the 2030 goal of the World Health Organization (WHO) to reduce suicides in one third.
According to a study recently in Nature Mental HealthBetween 1990 and 2021, the global suicide rate fell from 10 deaths per 100,000 people to about seven deaths per 100,000 people.
If current trends continue, investigators estimate that the global suicide rate will fall even longer by 2050, to less than 6.5 deaths per 100,000 people.
This analysis collected data on suicide deaths from 102 countries using WHO mortality database.
One of the data that caught the most attention was that suicide rates decrease on all continents except in the Americas. Suicide has increased countries such as Mexico, Paraguay and the US.
In the US, for example, between 2000 and 2020, the suicide rate jumped from about 9.6 deaths to 12.5 deaths per 100,000 people. Researchers believe this is due to a Increased suicides with firearms and the effects on the mental health of the 2008 financial crisis.
In this analysis it was also found that suicide rates were also significantly higher in high income countries than in low and medium performance.
Previous studies have found similar descents at suicide global rates, but this is the first analysis to include data from the early years of the pandemic COVID-19 And something unexpected jumped in sight: the Suicide rates decreased.
“We tend to see a drop in suicide with tragedies national or large worldwide catastrophes. There is a feeling that everything is okay not to be well. It is expected not to be well, ”he explained, to, Paul Nestadtfrom Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.
Many governments also support crises: emergency lines, better access to mental health care and even financial assistance. “From the point of view of suicide, It was a success the way we managed the pandemic”, Says Nestadt.
