One person commits suicide every 40 seconds: WHO

The most suicide-prone countries were Guyana (44.2 per 100,000), followed by North and South Korea (38.5 and 28.9 respectively

So North Korea is not the paradise its citizens are lead to believe?

Every suicide is a tragedy.

What is a tragedy is that people are left to suffer to the point that they see no other way out. Trying to prevent suicide itself is meaningless without addressing the underlying causes.

Glad to see Japan is making progress in this department. 18.5 per 100,000 is not great, but numbers have been on the decline for the past several years.

There's 7.2 billion people in the world!

The 朝鮮半島 is not a happy place to be!

If I lived in North Korea, I'd want to end my life.

" The global rate was put at 11.4 per 100,000, with men almost twice as likely as women to take their own lives." " But a major challenge, it said, is that suicide victims are often from marginalised groups of the population,"

Could it be that misandry has a hand in this?