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Poor colour selection, if I read it right, red is "good", i.e. few suicides, blue is middle, and yellow is bad, menaing high rates of suicide. Highly counterintuitive.

I bet it was intentional, red is internationally recognized as a metaphor for caution and/or danger, someone's a drama queen —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.160.239.43 (talk) 22:56, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Israel

I'm not sure why Israel/Palestine is in the lowest group on suicides; unless the news is misleading or suicide bombers don't count they should have a fairly high rate. 152.7.57.14 (talk) 02:30, 25 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Color coding is still not intuitive 85.10.62.166 (talk) 19:47, 22 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I agree... It's now positively hard to tell any of the categories apart. tommylommykins 17:33, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Again with the poor color choice

It looks like this has bee changed once, but a chorpleth map like this that only uses one color (in this case green) should move by lightness, not hue. This is set up by hue, so at a first approximation it looks like the U.S., etc. have higher suicide rates than Russia, etc. Can someone fix this? Ethan Mitchell (talk) 22:32, 12 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Really bad indeed. Still needs to be fixed! --Alib (talk) 11:16, 27 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

wrong statistics for India and China

The suicide rates for India and China (>40) you mentioned is wrong! I guess you took the numbers from "Times of India: India, China have highest suicide rates in the world" Actually the author of that article misunderstood the year reported (1998 and 1999)as the suicide rate (98 and 99 per 100,000).

Times of India: Suicide is fast becoming one of the leading causes of death in the country. According to WHO's latest suicide rate estimates, India along with China holds the dubious distinction of having the highest suicide rates in the world.

While in China, 99 out of every 100,000 people commit suicide annually, for India, it stands at 98 per 100,000 population.Worldwide, suicide rates have increased by 60% in the past 50 years, mainly in the developing countries. Most suicides in the world occur in Asia, which is estimated to account for up to 60% of all suicides.

WHO statistic :[1]

Country Year Males Females

CANADA 04 17.3 5.4
CHILE 03 17.8 3.1
CHINA 99 13.0 14.8
(Selected rural & urban areas)

ICELAND 05 16.2 6.1
INDIA 98 12.2 9.1
IRAN 91 0.3 0.1

Manotel (talk) 15:19, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

India and China data

Echoing the comment above, please fix the map using WHO data, and ignore what the Times of India have to say on the matter (as a general principle, for reasons of accuracy, it is usually prudent to ignore everything the ToI has to say on a given issue). The Indians and Chinese are not remotely as suicidal as you make them seem.

Also, the colours are atrocious. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.3.232.28 (talk) 15:31, 12 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]