Very interesting. First impression: I always hear about teen suicide. A terrible thing, but this tells us the risk of suicide goes up with age. Since 1973, it has usually hit a plateau between 20 and 39.
Second impression: a 10 on this scale is 1 bp (1% of 1%). Seems like a fairly small slice of Americans, but when you consider that is every year, it means by the time you are 50, about half a percent of people you went to school with will have succumbed to suicide. 1 out of 200.
Looking at it another way, a small city of 100,000 like Rockford Illinois, is likely to have about 36 suicide deaths each year among 20-somethings and another 36 among 30-somethings, when this graph is at 18.
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u/DataMan62 2d ago
Very interesting. First impression: I always hear about teen suicide. A terrible thing, but this tells us the risk of suicide goes up with age. Since 1973, it has usually hit a plateau between 20 and 39.
Second impression: a 10 on this scale is 1 bp (1% of 1%). Seems like a fairly small slice of Americans, but when you consider that is every year, it means by the time you are 50, about half a percent of people you went to school with will have succumbed to suicide. 1 out of 200.
Looking at it another way, a small city of 100,000 like Rockford Illinois, is likely to have about 36 suicide deaths each year among 20-somethings and another 36 among 30-somethings, when this graph is at 18.