Suicide and Homicide Rates are Negatively Correlated!

I'm pretty sure I could talk my wife into moving here. I probably wouldn't even need to cite the country's low combined suicide-homicide rate.

Here's a list of some the world's richest countries (based on Gross National Income per capita and Purchasing Power Parity). I only included countries that I could imagine living in myself (sorry, Bahrain). I omitted the USA because I already live here.

Rank	Country	Population	GNI PPP
1	Singapore	5,535,000	76,850
2	Norway	5,205,434	66,520
3	Luxembourg	562,958	59,750
4	Switzerland	8,279,700	56,580
5	Sweden	9,828,655	44,760
6	Germany	81,197,500	44,540
7	Denmark	5,699,220	44,460
8	Austria	8,623,073	43,840
9	Netherlands	16,929,000	43,210
10	Canada	35,851,774	42,610
11	Australia	23,964,700	42,540
12	Belgium	11,280,134	40,280
13	Iceland	331,310	38,870
14	Finland	5,492,404	38,480
15	Japan	126,890,000	37,630
16	France	67,107,000	37,580
17	United Kingdom	64,800,000	35,760
18	Ireland	4,635,400	35,090
19	Italy	60,725,000	34,100
20	Spain	46,439,864	31,850
21	New Zealand	4,632,640	30,750
22	Malta	445,426	28,030
23	Greece	10,846,979	25,630
24	Portugal	10,374,822	25,360

Here's the same list, sorted by Homicide Rate:

Rank	Country	Homicide
1	Malta	2.8
2	Norway	2.2
3	Greece	1.7
4	Belgium	1.6
5	Finland	1.6
6	Canada	1.4
7	Ireland	1.2
8	Portugal	1.2
9	Australia	1.1
10	France	1.0
11	United Kingdom	1.0
12	Austria	0.9
13	Netherlands	0.9
14	Italy	0.9
15	New Zealand	0.9
16	Luxembourg	0.8
17	Germany	0.8
18	Denmark	0.8
19	Spain	0.8
20	Sweden	0.7
21	Switzerland	0.6
22	Iceland	0.3
23	Japan	0.3
24	Singapore	0.2

And sorted by Suicide Rate:

Rank	Country	Suicide
1	Japan	18.5
2	Finland	14.8
3	Belgium	14.2
4	Iceland	14.0
5	France	12.3
6	Austria	11.5
7	Sweden	11.1
8	Ireland	11.0
9	Australia	10.6
10	Canada	9.8
11	New Zealand	9.6
12	Germany	9.2
13	Switzerland	9.2
14	Norway	9.1
15	Denmark	8.8
16	Luxembourg	8.7
17	Portugal	8.2
18	Netherlands	8.2
19	Singapore	7.4
20	United Kingdom	6.2
21	Malta	6.0
22	Spain	5.1
23	Italy	4.7
24	Greece	3.8

Here's the Combined Homicide-Suicide Rate:

Rank	Country	Combined
1	Japan	18.8
2	Finland	16.4
3	Belgium	15.8
4	Iceland	14.3
5	France	13.3
6	Austria	12.4
7	Ireland	12.2
8	Sweden	11.8
9	Australia	11.7
10	Norway	11.3
11	Canada	11.2
12	New Zealand	10.5
13	Germany	10.0
14	Switzerland	9.8
15	Denmark	9.6
16	Luxembourg	9.5
17	Portugal	9.4
18	Netherlands	9.1
19	Malta	8.8
20	Singapore	7.6
21	United Kingdom	7.2
22	Spain	5.9
23	Italy	5.6
24	Greece	5.5

And the correlation between suicide rate and homicide rate in these countries is -.24! Once again, we find that as the suicide rate decreases, the homicide rate increases, and vice versa. (Yesterday's post found the same effect for the 20 most populous nations.)