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Canada, a country with a comparatively low suicide rate overall at 10.3 incidents per 100,000 people, exhibits one such discrepancy. When comparing the suicide rate of Indigenous peoples in Canada, the rate of suicide increases to 24.3 incidents per 100,000 people: [19] a rate among the ten highest in the world.
Globally, death by suicide occurred about 1.8 times more often among males than among females in 2008, and 1.7 times in 2015. [6] [7] [8] In the Western world, males die by suicide three to four times more often than do females. [6] [9] This greater male frequency is increased in those over the age of 65. [10]
Homicide statistics by gender. According to the data given by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, worldwide, 79% of homicide victims are men, and in 193 of the 202 listed countries or regions, men were more likely to be killed than women. [1] In two, the ratio was 50:50 ( Switzerland and British Virgin Islands ), and in the remaining ...
According to Statistics Canada, in the period from 1950 to 2009, males died by suicide at a rate three times that of women. The much higher rate of male suicide is a long-term pattern in Canada. At all points in time over the past 60 years, males have had higher rates of suicide than females.
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Suicide is a worldwide issue which is disproportionally affecting Developed countries, with 23% of the total suicide rate despite having only 17% of global population. [1] There are many competing factors that come into play when determining the epidemiology of suicide such as biological sex, race and sexual orientation, religion, social ...
In contrast to these findings, some studies indicate that males have only one peak of suicide during the spring and early summer while women show two peaks of suicide throughout the year, during the spring and fall: "The seasonal distribution of suicides among the 117 males was similar and showed a significant seasonality: spring and summer ...
"Of the 80 disorders diagnosed in adulthood for which sex ratios are provided, 35 are said to be more common in men than in women (17 of which are substance related or a paraphilia), 31 are said to be more common in women than men, and 14 are said to be equally common in both sexes." Differences in male and female jealousy can also be observed.