> in America is up by 18% since 2000 ... The rise is largely among white, middle-aged, poorly educated men in areas that were left behind by booms and crushed by busts
> Because farming involves killing things, rural folk are likelier to have the means to kill themselves—guns, pesticides—to hand
> Unemployed people kill themselves at around two-and-a-half times the rate of those in work
> the most effective measure of all is limiting access to guns. Half of all Americans who commit suicide shoot themselves, and the overall rate in America is about twice that in Britain, which has strict gun controls. The difference in gun ownership largely accounts for the state-by-state variation in suicide rates
Unlike the worldwide decline, the rise in America is linked to such a specific cultural subgroup that I'd love to know how the suicide rates compares between different populations within America