That's from 2019, numbers for the last 3 years are a little harder get but like attempts went up but deaths went down at least in most places but in a couple places deaths shot up a lot?
https://www.nichd.nih.gov/newsroom/news/042722-COVID-adolesc...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/youth-suicide-attempts-...
Yikes.
Not exactly how I remember it.. but yeah. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nyu-bobst-library-suicides-al...
US: 14.5 UK: 6.9 Germany: 8.3
The problem IS NOT tall structures. The problem is something about US society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/countries
The data shows that the USA has way more tall buildings than most of Europe, by more than an order of magnitude.
Disclaimer: I don’t agree they’re a leading cause, rather an accessory to a suicide premeditated by various health/societal factors.
Looking at the date of the article, they were almost contemporary.
That's because the media only reports on unusual deaths.
For example, sometimes I'll see the emergency crews pulling a body out of Lake Washington. It never makes the news. Drowning deaths are too common.
I read somewhere that drownings were the 2nd leading cause of death for children. Cars were #1.
People drown mainly because they underestimate the risk of it.
I know parents who had their toddler drown. The grief and devastation of that never stops, decade after decade. They had camped near a river bank, and the kid wandered off into the water.
Basically the #1 causes of unintentional death in age order are drowning (<5), cars (5-20) then drugs (20+).
UK driving test is difficult, and I suspect drunk driving is much lower because distances are lesser and public transport is better.
> suicides
Much easier when you have a gun around
This is one of those metrics that really makes US federalism apparent and shows the drastic difference in outcomes from the two major parties. By reviewing the per state metrics[1], you can see that states that take a much lighter hand to drug criminalization and that offer state sponsored relief (California, for instance) have a much lower death rate to ones that take a heavy hand (southern states, New Mexico, etc).
1 - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/drug_poisoning_mor...
You say Southern States have a higher death rate, yet Mississippi (typically considered archetypical of the deep south) a lower per-capita drug overdose rate.
Texas, which is a state dominated by the party that does not rule California has an overdose rate about 75% that of California.
There's a lot more going on than your analysis would suggest.
* Cars tend to be bigger i.e. more dangerous in the US
* Drink driving seems to be more acceptable in the USA.
* The driving test in the UK is much tougher than even the toughest us state
* Most of the US don't have mandatory annual vehicle inspections to check they're safe and roadworthy
I'm always kind of surprised how terrified Americans visiting the UK are, when they see the kind of speeds people drive at here.
If you're coming here on holiday from the US and you're planning your route using Google Maps, double the time estimate. You won't like the speeds it expects you to drive at.
To accommodate big cars.
Has that changed? Is the UK license standard as high as it once was?
Guns get an outsized portion of air time on most media. Especially crimes committed by legal weapons against white people. If all gun crimes were covered equally you would hears a lot more about gang violence and illegal weapons.
> Deaths by gun related homicide in UK - 200. In US - 20000. (Both numbers pale in comparison to motor vehicle deaths, but there are a lot more in the US. Probably to be expected as there is stringent firearm control in the UK.)
I'd be curious to see the difference between gun homicides and homicides. The UK has a huge knife crime problem.
> I'm thinking overdoses is a major contributor. It's the only way to get to millions in less than 10 years. Car accidents, maybe, but honestly it's not that much compared to the number of young people who die every year. Ditto, with gun related homicide, which is even less than car accidents.
Overdoses and drug related deaths. Drug addiction will shorten a person's lifespan by decades.
Deaths by billion vehicle miles in UK - 5.2. In US - 12.5. (both have tens of thousands of KSI, but the US has over twice as many per cap. In fact, way, more KSI from car accidents than even gun related homicide in the US. I hadn't realized that!)
Deaths by gun related homicide in UK - 200. In US - 20000. (Both numbers pale in comparison to motor vehicle deaths, but there are a lot more in the US. Probably to be expected as there is stringent firearm control in the UK.)
Deaths by drug overdose and poisoning in UK - ~5000. In US - um, yeah, well over 120000 if you count the poisonings too as the UK does. (I'll just say, I think we found one of our major culprits in this one.)
I'm thinking overdoses is a major contributor. It's the only way to get to millions in less than 10 years. Car accidents, maybe, but honestly it's not that much compared to the number of young people who die every year. Ditto, with gun related homicide, which is even less than car accidents.
I know we may not want to talk about it, but I also noticed major numbers in suicides among young people. (More than vehicle accidents and gun related homicides combined in 2021.) Not sure if that's where the parent comment was going though? So I left that out. It could be a contributor though? The numbers are there, which is what you need to impact averages.
My takeaway? Suicides and drug overdoses. Not to be taken lightly.