Claim: The gender differences in suicide (as presented by WHO in its 2008 data) is that the gender that has the highest suicide cases are the females as they are the weakest wherein it can be seen that South Eastern Asia has the most suicide rate while the region with the least population in the world—Eastern Mediterranean, a region which is a loose definition of the eastern approximate half or third of the Mediterranean Sea—has the least suicide rate.
Evidence: In high-income modernised countries male and female rates of suicidal behaviors differ much compared to those in the rest of the world: while women are reportedly more prone to suicidal thoughts, rates of suicide are higher among men (suicide in men has been described as a "silent epidemic"). The following are lists of countries by suicide rate as per data published by the World Health Organization (WHO) and other sources. About one person in 5,000–15,000 dies by suicide every year, with an estimated global rate of 10.5 per 100,000 population down from 11.6 in 2008.