Table 3: Bivariate correlation coefficients between social indicators and suicide mortality rates.

Social Indicator Both Sex Suicides Male Suicides Female Suicides
Percentage of population depressed 0.295 0.295 0.235
Percentage of population anxious ̶ 0.065 ̶ 0.113 0.083
Alcohol consumption per capita 0.667* 0.660* 0.544*
Unemployment rate (% unemployed) ̶ 0.126 ̶ 0.094 ̶ 0.195
Human development index 0.550* 0.549* 0.421**
Coefficient of human inequality ̶ 0.690* ̶ 0.717* ̶ 0.445**
Gender inequality index ̶ 0.481* ̶ 0.496* ̶ 0.310
GDP per capita (PPP) 0.477* 0.492* 0.274
Democracy index 0.434** 0.413** 0.412**
Religion unimportant (%) 0.647* 0.608* 0.640*

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.10.