suicide rate

基本解释

Some take their lives: The suicide rate for Americans over 65 is second only to the rate for adolescents, and for white men over 65 it’s more than four times the national average.
有些人会自杀：美国65岁以上的自杀率仅仅排在青年人自杀率的第二位，对于白人来说65岁以上是国家平均年龄的四倍以上。
Although many people assume that the highest rates of suicide are among young people, older white males age 85 and older actually have the highest suicide rate in the United States.
虽然许多人猜测自杀率最高的是年轻人，但是85岁或更年长的白人男性，实际上却是自杀率最高的人群。
The overall suicide rate rose 0.7％ during this time, but the rate for white men aged 40 to 64 rose 2.7％ and for middle-aged women 3.9％ , the team at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore found.
巴尔的摩约翰-霍普金斯大学的研究小组发现，美国的总体自杀率在这一期间增长了0.7%，其中，40岁至64岁白人男性的自杀率上升了2.7%，而中年白人女性的自杀率则上升了3.9%。

One chief said the suicide rate for young Native American men in his state was twelve times the national average.
It has about 102,000 employees and it says its suicide rate is about average for a company its size.
But a 2005 study by the World Health Organization also found France has a higher suicide rate than any other western nation.

GPs were given special training in diagnosing depression, the suicide rate dropped by two-thirds.
ECONOMIST: Suicide