Singapore suicide rate is 4Xs that of entire US ARMY at WAR!

[jumpmrt]

Singapore scored about 645 suicides annually according to 2006 figure at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

Where male=12.9 person per 100,000 population. Our total population of 5 millions means 50x of 100,000 then totalizing male suicide cases to about 645 for 2006.

The 2009 suicide figure for entire US military at Afghanistan & Iraq wars only reported 147 cases, comparing with Singapore's 645 cases.

Singaporean male suicide rate therefore is about 4.3 X higher than entire US military at the wars.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1947405,00.html?xid=yahoo-feat

A Mounting Suicide Rate Prompts an Army Response

Neither the U.S. military nor the American public would tolerate a conflict in which U.S. losses mounted for five straight years. Yet, that's what's happening in the Army's battle with suicides. The recently released figure for November show that 12 soldiers are suspected of taking their own lives, bringing to 147 the total suicides for 2009, the highest since the Army began keeping track in 1980. Last year the Army had 140 suicides.

Although Army officials don't blame the spike on .....

 

[jumpmrt]

But SHIT TIMES is so proud that suicide rate dropped in Sg to 9 yrs low.

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Singapore/Story/STIStory_409499.html

Suicide rates at 9-yr low
Lower numbers credited to government policies, volunteer groups' efforts
By Melissa Sim

Although the suicide rate fell last year, the economic downturn may lead more people to decide to end their lives. -- ST PHOTO: WANG HUI FEN

SUICIDE rates in Singapore dropped to their lowest level in nine years, to 8.76 per 100,000 residents, last year. The actual number of suicides last year also fell - to 364, a five-year low.

The numbers are well below that of other Asian countries such as South Korea (24 per 100,000), Japan (23.1 per 100,000) and Hong Kong (18.6 per 100,000). Experts credit government policies and closer interaction among various volunteer groups for keeping numbers down.

From their five year low figure SG total cases of suicide in 2008 is 364.

While 2008 entire US military's suicide cases was only 140.

So for 2008 entire US military at Afghanistan & Iraq wars their suicide figures is still less then HALF of our peaceful little red dot!

 

[theblackhole]

how many more suicides have gone unreported?

the number is staggeringly horrendous for a small city like ours....madness.