# How can I compare Indian suicide rates to deaths? (natural, accidental, crime)

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**Created:** [December 31, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-compare-indian-suicide-rates-to-deaths-natural-accidental-crime/221997 "2003-12-31T20:19:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-compare-indian-suicide-rates-to-deaths-natural-accidental-crime/221997/1 "2003-12-31T20:19:05Z")

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Today’s newspaper (Associated Press item) says suicide rates “for Alaskan Native males was more than 6 times the national average, or 68.5 per 100,000 people.”

What I’d like to know is how that stacks up as a percentage of total deaths.

How do I calculate that?

Also, but less, I would like to know how that relates to accidental deaths or crime-related.

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**Author:** ![kpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c57346/32.png) [@kpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kpm)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-can-i-compare-indian-suicide-rates-to-deaths-natural-accidental-crime/221997/2 "2003-12-31T20:52:58Z")

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You can find those kind of stats on this website - just look around and they are probably there somewhere

[http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/](http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/)