More young Greenlanders committing suicide
With children as young as ten reportedly taking their own lives, public-health officials are left seeking to explain their motivations.
Suicide has long plagued Greenland’s young people, but new research shows that the number of people under the age of 24 dying by their own hands has steadily increased since the 1970s, when suicide first became a major public-health problem, The Arctic Journal writes.
Since then, young people aged 20-24 have made up the largest group of those committing suicide. In the 1970s, they made up 7% of suicide victims. Today, they account for more than half, according to a paper published in the International Journal of Circumpolar Health.