Regional dynamics of gender suicidality rate

The aim of the work is to compare the dynamics of the gender suicidality coefficient (GSC) of the population of cities and rural areas. The article deals with the issues of regional dynamics (rural/urban) of the GSC (quotient from the division of the relative coefficient of suicide in men by the coefficient of suicide in women) in the Chuvash Republic (ChR) for the period 1995-2002. The data obtained are compared with the same indicator for the same period in the Russian Federation (RF), as well as the WHO data for the period 2003-2019. The data obtained allowed us to conclude that for the period 1995-2002 the dynamics of changes in the GSC in the villages and cities of the Chuvash Republic differed significantly, the shape of the graphs resembled sinusoids that are in antiphase. In the villages, there was a trend towards an increase in the GSC, and in cities there was observed a trend towards a decrease. When calculating GSC in the Russian Federation without differentiating between a city or a village in the period 2003-2019, there was both an annual decrease in suicide coefficient s and a much smaller GSC, changes associated with a significant decrease in the frequency of suicide among men than with a much less pronounced decrease in the frequency of suicide in women. The dynamics of GSC over the studied period among the rural and urban population differs significantly, while from 1998 to 2002 in cities there was a trend towards equalizing the frequency of suicides among men and women, in the villages the trend was the opposite. GSC when assessed in large populations is stable over significant time periods. The data obtained are indirect evidence of the multifactorial nature of the suicidal phenotype.