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. 2020 Jul 30;16(Suppl-1):93–100. doi: 10.2174/1745017902016010093

Table 3. Bivariate correlation coefficients between social indicators and suicide mortality rates.

Social Indicator Both Sex Suicides Male Suicides Female Suicides
Percentage of population depressed 0.295 0.295 0.235
Percentage of population anxious – 0.065 – 0.113 0.083
Alcohol consumption per capita 0.667* 0.660* 0.544*
Unemployment rate (% unemployed) – 0.126 – 0.094 – 0.195
Human development index 0.550* 0.549* 0.421**
Coefficient of human inequality – 0.690* – 0.717* – 0.445**
Gender inequality index – 0.481* – 0.496* – 0.310
GDP per capita (PPP) 0.477* 0.492* 0.274
Democracy index 0.434** 0.413** 0.412**
Religion unimportant (%) 0.647* 0.608* 0.640*

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.10.