Development, gender equality, and suicide rates.
A component of the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Index which measures longevity was negatively associated -.55 with suicide rates in 37 nations for men; the correlation with the suicide sex ratio was also negative (r = -.59). Women's access to social, political, and economic power in a subsample of 26 nations, summarized in the UNDP's Gender Empowerment Measure, was positively correlated with suicide rates (r = .36 for both women and men). UNDP measures of attainment in literacy and income showed no individual relationship with suicide rates. In a multiple regression model, life expectancy was negatively related, and the Gender-related Development index was positively related, to suicide rates.
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Politics Department, University of Adelaide, Australia.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy; D008297:Male; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*