Data Vis 2

Suicide Rates and their Correlation with GDP

Data Visualisation 2 - FIT3139 - Harjodh Singh

In modern and more open society, mental health and suicide has been brought under the light and talked about more, its awareness has risen greatly.

This visualistaion will look Suicide rates in each country and its relationship to GDP and see if there is any correlation between the two.

Global Perspective

Suicide Rates Global Map

From the choropleth above, The map represents the suicide rates of each country over the years, the data has been normalised for a suicide per 100,000 people. This shows the changes over the past of different countries.

Note : The slider can be used the filter over the years.

From this scatter plot below, we can generally we can see that Africa have suicide rates in the lower half. Europe with a higher GDP per Capita has higher suicide rates. However, it should be taken into account that less economically developed countries do not collect as much data on areas such as suicide and mental health.

Note: The drop-down menu can be used to select which Continent is shown. The slider can be used as a filter for years. You can also click on the legend to filter the continents.

Suicide Rates vs GDP Scatter Plot

Continental Perspective

This map is more conentrated, showing the suicide rates (per 100,000) in more detail of each continent

Note: The sliders can be used to filter through the years and control the level of zoom, the drop-down menu can be used to choose which Continent is shown.

Suicide Rates Continental Map

For each Continent we can see both the average suicide rates (per 100,000) and the GDP (per Captia)

Note : The slider can be used the filter over the years.

Average GDP and Suicide Rates

Countries Perspective

Suicide Rates vs GDP, 2000-2019

There is a country from each continent. You are able to compare and see and trends between GDP and suicide rates over the years to see how they effect each other.

Note : Select a country from the drop-down to display

This graph shows the spread of suicide rates (per 100,000) over the years in different countries, allowing us to compare their data.

Spread of Suicide Rates

Change in countries, 2000-2019

We can clearly see that there is not much of a change over the years in each country over the years. The general rate stays the same regardless of GDP.

Spread of Suicide Rates, 2000-2019

This highlights the specific countries, comparing them to other each other. We can see that the suicide rate does not differ that much between the change of GDP.