Summary

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The purpose of this project is to present global suicide data collected by WHO from 1987 to 2014 and its evolution in time. To accomplish this analysis, we put first pulled data from the World Health Organization and assembled a dataset on over 78 countries.

Death by suicide is an extremely complex issue that causes pain to hundreds of thousands of people every year around the world.

Every suicide is a tragedy. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Burden of Disease study estimate that almost 800,000 people die from suicide every year. That’s one person every 40 seconds.

Due to the stigma associated with suicide – and the fact that it is illegal in some countries – this figure is also likely to be an underestimate, with some suicides being classified as unintentional injuries.

Suicide is more common than homicide across most countries in the world, often as much as ten to twenty times higher.

Mexico Overview

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In this project we will dive in the statistics, factors, reasons, and numbers of suicide rates in Mexico.

While the suicide death rate is declining overall around the globe by 26%, suicide has been growing in Mexico during the last decade or so (a 16.6% increase between the years 2000 and 2012).This increase is more noticeable among Mexican females (a 55.1% increase) compared to males (a 10.0% increase), and among youth (10-19 years old) and those between 30 and 49 years of age.