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ankuprk OP t1_isdhzt3 wrote

Reply to comment by TotallynottheCCP in [OC] Suicide Rate vs GDP per capita for various countries. Notice that the upper right triangle is almost empty i.e. generally increase in GDP per capita results in decrease in suicide rates. by ankuprk

I am not implying a negative correlation. The plot looks like a 'lower left triangle' not like a line with a negative slope. I am just saying that 'upper right triangle' is mostly empty.

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ankuprk OP t1_isc0mni wrote

Reply to comment by Charizard3535 in [OC] Suicide Rate vs GDP per capita for various countries. Notice that the upper right triangle is almost empty i.e. generally increase in GDP per capita results in decrease in suicide rates. by ankuprk

Yeah it's definitely not perfect, doesn't account for income inequality at all. If you have a suggestion for a better metric (data for which is available publicly) let me know, I will share another plot using that. Would be interesting to compare it with this one.

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ankuprk OP t1_isbyojt wrote

Reply to [OC] Suicide Rate vs GDP per capita for various countries. Notice that the upper right triangle is almost empty i.e. generally increase in GDP per capita results in decrease in suicide rates. by ankuprk

For both I used data from Wikipedia:Suicide rates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate (WHO data for 2019)GDP per capita: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita (World bank column, mostly for 2018/2019/2020)

Each dot corresponds to a country, but labeling all of them made the plot unreadable. Apologies if your country wasn't labeled.

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