I've been working on a theory that there is a correlation between high suicide rates, popularity of chess and alcoholism, and the number of speakers of Uralic languages that a country has, and I had a look at the relevant data. Some interesting facts:

China is the only country where more women commit suicide than men, usually the ratio goes hugely the other way.

Commonwealth Caribbean countries have very low suicide rates, but Guyana, which shares with them a similar culture, ethic mix, background, history and climate, has one of the highest in the world.

Puerto Rico has almost half the suicide rate of the United States: perhaps potential immigrants should be warned about this.

The suicide rate in Lithuania is nearly forty times that in Azerbaijan.
Nobody seems to know how many Africans kill themselves. A lot? Very few? It's just too early to say.

I'm off to read Thomas Lovell Beddoes and drink Amaro Erbes.