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suicide entry #2
JAPAN PPL
The suicide rate per 100,000 people was about 20 until 1997, "but rose to 26.1 persons in 1998, slightly below Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, which have the world's highest suicide rate, and Russia, Hungary and Slovenia where the suicide rate is 30 per 100,000 people."
Japan's current ratio of suicide to population size is about double that found in the United States or most European Union countries.
In recent years Japanese have had a far greater chance of dying by their own hands rather than dying in a traffic accident. In 2002 only 8,326 Japanese died on the roads compared to the country’s 32,143 suicides that year.
High suicide rates are nothing new to Japan. The annual number of deaths has been over 30,000 a year since 1998 when the figure rose by approximately 8,500 to 32,863.
Men in their 40s and 50s accounted for 11,287 of Japan’s 34,427 suicide victims in 2003 according to data published by the National Police Agency (NPA). 2003 was a record year. A record that put in context equates to approximately 95 suicides a day or one every fifteen minutes. One man aged between 40 and 59 now commits suicide every 48 minutes.
As in other countries, men are far more likely to take their own lives than women, and men account for a staggering 73% of all suicides in Japan. Suicide by the elderly, 33.5%, and by people with financial problems, 25.8%, account for the two largest non-gender groupings. There has also been an alarming surge in the number of children committing suicide.
JAPAN PPL
The suicide rate per 100,000 people was about 20 until 1997, "but rose to 26.1 persons in 1998, slightly below Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, which have the world's highest suicide rate, and Russia, Hungary and Slovenia where the suicide rate is 30 per 100,000 people."
Japan's current ratio of suicide to population size is about double that found in the United States or most European Union countries.
In recent years Japanese have had a far greater chance of dying by their own hands rather than dying in a traffic accident. In 2002 only 8,326 Japanese died on the roads compared to the country’s 32,143 suicides that year.
High suicide rates are nothing new to Japan. The annual number of deaths has been over 30,000 a year since 1998 when the figure rose by approximately 8,500 to 32,863.
Men in their 40s and 50s accounted for 11,287 of Japan’s 34,427 suicide victims in 2003 according to data published by the National Police Agency (NPA). 2003 was a record year. A record that put in context equates to approximately 95 suicides a day or one every fifteen minutes. One man aged between 40 and 59 now commits suicide every 48 minutes.
As in other countries, men are far more likely to take their own lives than women, and men account for a staggering 73% of all suicides in Japan. Suicide by the elderly, 33.5%, and by people with financial problems, 25.8%, account for the two largest non-gender groupings. There has also been an alarming surge in the number of children committing suicide.