{"id":57706,"date":"2019-01-14T09:49:23","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T09:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57706"},"modified":"2019-01-14T09:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T09:49:23","slug":"global-suicide-rate-falls-by-29-in-the-last-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2019\/01\/14\/global-suicide-rate-falls-by-29-in-the-last-two-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Global suicide rate falls by 29% in the last two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a positive trend among human race across the globe, number of people committing suicide has fallen by 29% since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the fall of the Soviet Union, the number of suicides among middle-aged Russian men dropped considerably. European nations also saw a significant drop in suicide rates after they peaked in 1934 during the Great Depression. Likewise, suicide rates have dropped in countries like Japan, China, India and South Korea too.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Economist says that many of these declines could be thanks in part to urbanization, fewer arranged marriages, and more legislation that limits means of self-abuse.<\/p>\n<p>One exception to worldwide declines, however, is the United States, where rates have risen steadily since 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/global-suicide-rate-has-declined-by-29-with-millions-of-tragedies-avoided-since-2000\/\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/global-suicide-rate-has-declined-by-29-with-millions-of-tragedies-avoided-since-2000\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/the-economist-explains\/2018\/11\/30\/why-the-global-suicide-rate-is-falling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/the-economist-explains\/2018\/11\/30\/why-the-global-suicide-rate-is-falling<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a positive trend among human race across the globe, number of people committing suicide has fallen by 29% since 2000. \u00a0 After the fall of the Soviet Union, the number of suicides among middle-aged Russian men dropped considerably. European nations also saw a significant drop in suicide rates after they peaked in 1934 during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}