[OC] Suicide Rate vs GDP per capita for various countries. Notice that the upper right triangle is almost empty i.e. generally increase in GDP per capita results in decrease in suicide rates.ankuprk OP t1_isc0mni wrote
Reply to comment by Charizard3535 in [OC] Suicide Rate vs GDP per capita for various countries. Notice that the upper right triangle is almost empty i.e. generally increase in GDP per capita results in decrease in suicide rates. by ankuprk
Yeah it's definitely not perfect, doesn't account for income inequality at all. If you have a suggestion for a better metric (data for which is available publicly) let me know, I will share another plot using that. Would be interesting to compare it with this one.
HZCH t1_ischw46 wrote
It wouldn’t account for inequalities as much as somehow using the Gini metric, and I’m no statistician, but how about using the median income - if there are enough sources…
iinavpov t1_iseapge wrote
Log GDP, for one thing is much better: going from 1 to 5 dollars a day is life changing. From 100 to 105 is nothing.
For another, you can multiply this by 1/gini as a proxy for how many people really benefit.
navicitizen t1_isefbvo wrote
Account also for number of sunny days or hours per country instead of GDP.
General-Syrup t1_iseg6ae wrote
It wouldn’t be one metric I’d like to see cause of death outside of Suicide. As some countries don’t report them the same.
WhileMyDreamsDecay t1_isea4lg wrote
Data envelope analysis might work. Outlier points furthest from the axis are Singapore, USA, South Korea and Guyana.
Kiribati has only 100k population so 30 suicides per year is terrible
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