Suicide Common Among Young Men Around The World

Overall List: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

http://www.nhs.uk/LiveWell/Suicide/Pages/Malesuicide.aspx

Men are nearly three times more likely to take their own life than women. In men under 35, suicide is the second most common cause of death in England and Wales.

http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120625/Suicide-leading-cause-of-death-among-young-people-in-India.aspx

Suicide has become the second-leading cause of death of young people in India, which has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, according to an Article published as part of the Lancet Series on suicide.

“Suicide kills nearly as many Indian men aged 15-29 as transportation accidents and nearly as many young women as complications from pregnancy and childbirth,” said lead author of the study Professor Vikram Patel, of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. With the decline in maternal death rates, suicide could soon become the leading cause of death among young women.

http://stpatrickshosp.ie/blog/suicide-leading-cause-death-among-young-men-ireland

Suicide is the leading cause of death in men aged 15-34 years in Ireland, surpassing the number of deaths from road traffic accidents. Rates of youth suicides in Ireland are now the 4th highest in Europe.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18371377

Suicide in the US military has sharply increased this year, hitting a rate of almost one death per day, figures show.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/armed-forces-suicides-surpass-combat-deaths-442723.html

The latest death toll for those in the armed forces who have taken their own lives has risen to 687 compared with 438 killed during active service in major conflicts such as the Gulf, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.

Ministry of Defence (MoD) figures released this weekend also reveal that the number of suicides among servicemen and women has risen by at least 49 in a year. This is more than three times the number of soldiers killed since the start of war in Afghanistan in 2001 and has raised fresh concerns about the mental welfare of troops. Those most at risk of taking their own lives are soldiers in their early 20s and teenage army recruits.

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/suicide-in-the-us-statistics-and-prevention/index.shtml/index.shtml

(USA)

In 2007, suicide was the third leading cause of death for young people ages 15 to 24.¹ Of every 100,000 young people in each age group, the following number died by suicide:¹

• Children ages 10 to 14 — 0.9 per 100,000
• Adolescents ages 15 to 19 — 6.9 per 100,000
• Young adults ages 20 to 24 — 12.7 per 100,000

As in the general population, young people were much more likely to use firearms, suffocation, and poisoning than other methods of suicide, overall. However, while adolescents and young adults were more likely to use firearms than suffocation, children were dramatically more likely to use suffocation.¹

There were also gender differences in suicide among young people, as follows:

• Nearly five times as many males as females ages 15 to 19 died by suicide.¹
• Just under six times as many males as females ages 20 to 24 died by suicide.¹