Table 3 Age-standardized suicide rates (per 100,000 population) and changes in rates by method used between 1958–1960 and 1965–1967 for males and females aged 30–49 years, Japan
From: An analysis of secular trends in method-specific suicides in Japan, 1950–1975
Male | Female | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rate in 1958–1960 | Rate in 1965–1967 | Difference in rates (%) a | Rate in 1958–1960 | Rate in 1965–1967 | Difference in rates (%) a | |||
Overall | 23.3 | 16.9 | −6.4 | (100) | 15.7 | 10.6 | −5.1 | (100) |
Non-poisoning | 13.4 | 13.1 | −0.3 | (4.3) | 9.4 | 7.8 | −1.6 | (30.8) |
Hanging | 7.5 | 7.5 | 0.0 | (0.1) | 3.8 | 3.1 | −0.7 | (13.7) |
Drowning | 1.4 | 1.1 | −0.3 | (5.2) | 2.8 | 1.7 | −1.0 | (20.5) |
Others | 4.4 | 4.5 | 0.1 | (−1.0) | 2.8 | 2.9 | 0.2 | (−3.3) |
Poisoning | 10.0 | 3.9 | −6.1 | (95.7) | 6.3 | 2.8 | −3.5 | (69.2) |
Opium derivatives | 0.003 | 0 | −0.003 | (0.04) | 0.005 | 0 | −0.005 | (0.1) |
Barbiturates | 0.5 | 0.1 | −0.5 | (7.4) | 0.3 | 0.04 | −0.3 | (5.2) |
Bromide | 2.8 | 0.5 | −2.2 | (34.9) | 1.8 | 0.4 | −1.4 | (28.4) |
Other analgesics and soporifics | 2.1 | 0.7 | −1.3 | (21.0) | 1.3 | 0.5 | −0.8 | (15.7) |
Cyanide compounds | 1.2 | 0.4 | −0.8 | (12.2) | 0.4 | 0.2 | −0.2 | (4.5) |
Organophosphates for agriculture | 2.0 | 0.9 | −1.1 | (16.8) | 1.4 | 0.7 | −0.7 | (13.7) |
Other phosphorus preparations | 0.3 | 0.1 | −0.3 | (4.1) | 0.4 | 0.1 | −0.2 | (4.9) |
Other substances | 1.0 | 1.1 | 0.1 | (−0.8) | 0.7 | 0.9 | 0.2 | (−3.4) |