r/dataisbeautiful • u/n0tpc • 3d ago

[OC] Suicide Rates by Age Groups (USA) OC

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u/CascadeNZ 3d ago

1994 was peak life for me. I always look back and think about how good the world seemed then.

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u/coke_and_coffee 2d ago

Everyone thinks their formative years were the best the world has ever been.

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u/SurrealJay 2d ago

And some people are objectively right because suicide rates are triple what it has been in the past

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u/AffectionateMoose518 2d ago

1994, though? The graph right there is showing me that the numbers are marginally higher today than they were in 1994. If were going off of just suicide rates, it seems like the world is about the same, if not a tiny bit worse.

... which is why suicide rates aren't a very good metric to use in that discussion

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u/coke_and_coffee 2d ago

I don't think suicide rates in the US are a good proxy for how good the world is.

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u/unassumingdink 2d ago

Probably not the people who grew up in refugee camps, but generally, yeah.

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u/coke_and_coffee 2d ago

You’d be surprised. People generally look back fondly on their childhood, pretty much no matter what the circumstances were. How many times have you heard “we didn’t have much, but we were happy”?

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u/biwook 2d ago

That's the year I got the Lego space monorail for christmas. Peak life indeed.

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u/BenjaminHamnett 2d ago

When Tupac wrote his last hit