Table 2.

Correlations between suicide rates, objective and subjective well-being indicators

	Suicide rate 65+	RR 65+ versus 0–64	Social protection benefits
Subjective general health aggregated	−0.72*	−0.38	0.74*
Self-rated income aggregated	−0.41	−0.35	0.70*
Life satisfaction aggregated	−0.51*	−0.41	0.66*
Happiness aggregated	−0.56*	−0.42*	0.75*
Old age pension % of the GDP	−0.04	0.21	0.60*
Expenditure on old age % of the GDP	−0.11	0.19	0.70*
Old-age-dependency ratio	−0.01	0.45*	0.30
Social protection benefits % of the GDP	−0.33	−0.11

The scales of subjective general health and self-rated income were reversed in order to have identical direction of other subjective well-being indicators depending on the negative or positive meaning of the indicators. No available data in objective well-being indicators for Russia and Ukraine

RR suicide rate ratio

* p < 0.05