How does the GDP Per Capita affect the suicide rate?

  • Gross Domestic Product (GDP) gives an estimate of a country's economic value in its currency.

  • GDP per capita is the GDP of a country divided by its total population. It effectively gives a measure of the income of an individual on an average.

  • From the scatter plot below, we can see that as GDP per capita money increases, the suicides per 100k population decreases.

  • Hence, as income increases suicides decrease, which makes sense.