Indigenous suicide rate 12th highest in the world [SMH.com.au]

Samantha Sangenito 7/13/154:00 AM

Indigenous Australia would have the 12th-highest suicide rate globally if it was ranked alongside the world's sovereign states.
With a suicide rate of 20.1 per 100,000, it would fall just behind India (21.1 per 100,000) and ahead of South Sudan (19.8 per 100,000) in the United Nations' global rankings for worst suicide rate, according to a Fairfax Media analysis. Guyana recorded the highest rate (44.2 per 100,000) while the lowest rate (0.4 per 100,000) was recorded jointly by Syria and Saudi Arabia.
Australia as a whole ranks 64th out of 171 countries, with a national rate of 10.6 suicides per 100,000.

[For more of this story, written by Inga Ting, go to http://www.smh.com.au/national...20150710-gi9jyn.html]

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