Claim: The gender differences in suicide (as presented by WHO in its 2008 data) is that males are mostly the ones who resort to suicide as opposed to females and 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: Incidence of male–female suicide ratio by WHO region (2008) 4.0 : 1 3.6 : 1 1.3 : 1 1.5 : 1 1.8 : 1 1.1 : 1 2.2 : 1 South Eastern Asia (26%) 15.6 Eastern Mediterranean (8.5%) 5.6 11.6 6.4 12.6 7.9 14.2 Eastern Mediterranean is a loose definition of the eastern approximate half, or third, of the Mediterranean Sea (its lowest common denominator being the Levantine Sea).