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 Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 1:28 am
Global Correlation of Gun ownership and suicide rate
The following is a list of the country's with the highest suicide rates in the world, between 44.2 and 16.6 (compared to 12.1 for the U.S.) Compared to the average gun ownership rate of 8.9 per 100 people, how many of these country's have above average world gun ownership rates?
3 out of 25 (12%) had an above average rate for gun ownership. 1 out of 25 (4%) had an above average rate for gun ownership. 0 out of 25 had a significantly above average gun ownership rate. Country's above average are bolded, where country's above 15.0 are in red. Countries above 30.0 would be in green.
1 Guyana - 14.6
2 South Korea - 1.1
3 Sri Lanka - 1.5
4 Lithuania - .7
5 Suriname - 13.4
6 Mozambique - 5.1
7 Tanzania - 1.4
8. Nepal - .8
9 Kazakhstan - 1.3
10 Burundi- 1.2
11 India - 4.2
12 South Sudan - 5.5
13 Turkmenistan- 3.8
14 Russia - 8.9
15. Uganda - 1.4
16 Hungary- 5.5
17 Japan - .6
18 Belarus - 7.3
19 Zimbabwe - 4.6
20 Bhutan - 3.5
21 Sudan - 5.5
22 Comoros - 1.8
23 Ukraine - 6.6
24 Poland - 1.3
25. Equatorial Guinea - 19.9
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Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2016 1:41 am
Country's with the lowest Suicide rates, compared to average gun ownership rate
The following is a list of the country's with the lowest rates of suicide in the world, between .4 and 3.5 (compared to 12.1 for the U.S.) Compared to the average gun ownership rate of 8.9 per 100 people, how many of these country's have above average world gun ownership rates?
12 out of 25 (48%) had an above average gun ownership rate. 4 out of 25 (16%) had a gun ownership rate far above average (15.0), and 2 out of 25 (8%) had a gun ownership rate extremely above average (30.0). It seems like there's very little chance that more guns = more suicides, at least according to the data at face value.
1. Syria - 3.9
2. Saudi Arabia - 35
3. Lebanon - 21
4. Kuwait- 24.8
5. Oman - 25.5
6. Jamaica - 8.1
7. Egypt - 3.5
8. Azerbaijan - 3.5
9. Iraq - 34.2
10. Libya - 15.5
11. Algeria - 7.6
12. Jordan - 11.5
13. Barbados - 7.8
14. Bahamas - 5.3
15. Tunisia - .1
16. Belize - 10
17. Venezuela- 10.7
18. Namibia- 12.6
19. Haiti - .6
20. Armenia - 12.5
21. Philippines - 4.7
22. Mauritania - 1.6
23. South Africa - 12.7
24. Malaysia - 1.5
25. Ghana - .4
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