Every year 740 thousand people suicide in the world, one every 43 seconds

Around 740,000 deaths for suicide in the world occur every year, One every 43 seconds And every minute four men and six women need hospital care for suicide attempts globally. Exorbitant numbers that emerged from an analysis of the institute for Health Metals and Evaluation (IHME) at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Washington in Seattle, published in The Lancet Public Health, conducted on the basis of the data of the Global Burden of Disease by region, country, year, age, sex and suicide with firearms from 1990 to 2021.

The analysis also certifies that men die from suicide at a double rate compared to women, who they hesitate in a probability three times higher than the attempts of women. On a global level, 10% of men’s suicides and 3% of women occurred with firearms. The estimates attest that in the last three decades the standardized mortality rate by global suicide is decreased by almost 40%, From about 15 deaths per 100,000 to 9 deaths per 100,000, suggesting the effectiveness of specific interventions and prevention that led to the decrease of over 50% of events for women and almost 34% for men.

There are many territorial disparities, for example at regional level, Eastern Asia, specifically China, recorded the major drop equal to 66% in the face of an increase in rates in other territories and for both sexes. Among these, central Latin America in which I know an increase of +39% is observed, with a peak in Mexico and a +123% only for women. Latin andina America had the highest increase, equal to 13%, with the ecuador in the lead for both sexes; Tropical Latin America was third with a 9% increase with the highest tips in Paraguay; High income North America recorded a 7% increase, with the United States on top of the list and a +23% only for women.

Among the causes of global death of 2021, suicide was Ranked 21st (higher than HIV/AIDS) For both combined and regional level, higher mortality rates occurred in Eastern Europe, in southern sub -Saharan Africa and central sub -Saharan Africa. For men, suicide was the 19th cause of death globally, with the eastern Europe that recorded the highest mortality rate, while for women it was placed in the 27th place worldwide, with higher rates in southern Asia. Previous studies have noted that the victims of violence, sexual aggressions and childhood trauma are considered to be greater risk of suicide, as well as access to lethal means, including weapons and pesticides, poverty and social deprivation.

The differences between men and women

The latest data also underline a clear difference between the two sexes globally, regional and nationally: the men would show more than double the probability to die of suicide compared to women, in which however 49% more likely to try it. Overall, the suicide mortality rate was 12.8 per 100,000 inhabitants for men and 5.4 per 100,000 inhabitants for women, while the incidence of suicide attempts that required medical care, without led to death , was three times higher for women than men, with a higher difference in North America with high income, with one out of 30.7 attempts that caused death for women and one out of 6.3 attempts for men.

Globally, men were more than three times more likely to die from suicide Using firearms Compared to women: 10% of men’s suicides were with firearms compared to 3% of women. The United States remain the nation with the highest suicide rate from firearms in the world: almost 22,000 (55%) of suicides for men and over 3,000 (almost 31%) for women, more likely to choose less means fatal, such as poisoning and overdose related to a higher survival rate. Furthermore, it emerged that both men and global women die from suicide in old age with an average age of death, in 1990, for men aged 43 and for women almost 42 years, passed within 2021 to 47 years for Men is 47 for women.

The average age higher than about 58 years for men and 60 years for women, they recorded themselves in Eastern Asia and the lowest one in Oceania, equal to 36 years for men and 34 years for women. These data offer an opportunity to develop most effective suicide prevention methods all over the world and more personalized intervention strategies for specific places and populations.