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Re:United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year... by vorpalhex on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @12:15AM (#21810840)
The US suicide rate per the CDC is 14/100k (2017). The UK suicide rate is 11/100k per the office of National statistics (2018).

I'm not sure why the Wikipedia page dramatically disagrees with the UK's own stats.

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Re:United States to fund gun-violence research after 20-year... by nl on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:04AM (#21811079)
The Wikipedia page uses WHO data, which is age-standardised. It's unclear if this explains the entire difference.

The WHO explanation is here: https://www.who.int/data/gho/indicator-metadata-registry/imr... and their data is here: http://apps.who.int/gho/data/node.main.MHSUICIDEASDR?lang=en

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