{"id":1607959,"date":"2025-11-01T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1607959"},"modified":"2025-11-01T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:00:00","slug":"men-far-more-likely-than-women-to-die-by-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/men-far-more-likely-than-women-to-die-by-suicide\/1607959\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Far More Likely Than Women To Die By Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Men Far More Likely Than Women To Die By Suicide<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The following chart, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/15390\/global-suicide-rates\/\">via Statista&#8217;s Katharina Buchholz,<\/a> shows\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/data.oecd.org\/healthstat\/suicide-rates.htm\">data<\/a>\u00a0on suicide prevalence in countries around the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out of every 100,000 men<\/strong> in the United States, an average of <strong>24 died from suicide <\/strong>in 2021, while for <strong>women the average was close to seven<\/strong> per 100,000.<\/p>\n<p>In several countries these figures were even higher, such as in South Korea, Lithuania and Hungary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While there are significant differences between countries, one pattern is clear to see: the rates of men taking their own lives are generally higher than those of women.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/15390\/global-suicide-rates\/\" title=\"Infographic: Men More Likely to Die by Suicide | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lithuania and South Korea had the highest rates of suicide among men<\/strong> in 2021 (out of the countries reporting data), at 50 and 37 cases per 100,000 population, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For women, South Korea, India and Japan had the highest rates<\/strong> of the selected countries, with 14.6, 10.9 and 10.1 cases per 100,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/files.aho.afro.who.int\/afahobckpcontainer\/production\/files\/iAHO_Suicide_Regional_Fact_sheet_August2022.pdf\">World Health Organization<\/a>, <strong>the African Region has the highest suicide rate in the world, estimated at 11.2 people per 100,000 population<\/strong> in 2019, compared to the global average of 9.0 per 100,000 population that year.<\/p>\n<p>Lesotho had particularly high rates at 87.5 per 100,000 population that year, followed by Eswatini at 40.5 per 100,000 population.<\/p>\n<p>The WHO underscores how 77 percent of suicides occurred in low- and middle-income countries in 2019, where a majority of the world&#8217;s population lives, adding that a lack of data on suicide has led to continued underreporting.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or somebody you know are in need of help, you can find a list of suicide crisis lines and website for countries around the world\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_suicide_crisis_lines\/\"><em>here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Fri, 10\/31\/2025 &#8211; 23:00<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/men-far-more-likely-women-die-suicide\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/men-far-more-likely-women-die-suicide<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men Far More Likely Than Women To Die By Suicide The following chart, via Statista&#8217;s Katharina Buchholz, shows\u00a0data\u00a0on suicide prevalence in countries around the world&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1607960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1607960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}