Pretty sure he's either conflating suicides (success!?) with attempts (failure!?) or multiplying by a factor of 10. Those numbers aren't even in the same ballpark as real, even factoring in things like deaths of despair (i.e. drinking/drugs).
I think it's supposed to be 55.9 per 100,000, and even that's including attempts. Wikipedia says successful suicides are 12.4 per 100k in 2018. This deep thinker just thinks that's 55.9%.
Maybe it's counting all the Darwin award style deaths as suicides too? Russia appears to have the overwhelming lead in people risking their lives for the hell of it, it does kinda seem like a lot of them don't particularly care about living long.
The only way you're getting to 50% is if your metric includes "drank a potentially lethal volume of alcohol once", and you're playing fast and loose with the definition of "potentially lethal".
Pretty sure he's either conflating suicides (success!?) with attempts (failure!?) or multiplying by a factor of 10. Those numbers aren't even in the same ballpark as real, even factoring in things like deaths of despair (i.e. drinking/drugs).
I think it's supposed to be 55.9 per 100,000, and even that's including attempts. Wikipedia says successful suicides are 12.4 per 100k in 2018. This deep thinker just thinks that's 55.9%.
Yeah, that number is in line with what I'd expect.
Maybe it's counting all the Darwin award style deaths as suicides too? Russia appears to have the overwhelming lead in people risking their lives for the hell of it, it does kinda seem like a lot of them don't particularly care about living long.
The only way you're getting to 50% is if your metric includes "drank a potentially lethal volume of alcohol once", and you're playing fast and loose with the definition of "potentially lethal".