Before you play

What This Suicide Figure Means

This game compares suicide mortality rate per 100,000 population.

  • The figure is age-standardized and intended to compare mortality burden across populations.
  • It is also deeply shaped by reporting quality, stigma, and how a death gets classified in the first place.
  • The number matters because it is tragic. The measurement matters because tragedy is not recorded evenly.

Even the most intimate forms of loss end up passing through institutions.