Asian American suicide

Note: This is messy but I left it as is, sorry. You can ask me about it if you know who I'm and I will explain.

TLDR; While it's true that in terms of ordering, suicide is the number one killer for young Asian Americans, their suicide rates are lower than average, and they have the lowest all-cause mortality of all ethnic groups.

 I saw a greentext on Reddit about how suicide is the number one killer for young Asian American males.

I wanted to check, it's validity and I found this post by a Ph.D. student.

I found this doc with the data and went to see if true.

It's true that 15-24 Asian Americans have suicide as their leading cause of death.

all-cause, all races (51.5, 95.6)* suicide (11.8, 17)

all-cause, suicide 20-24 hispanic (76.1, 11.5)

all-cause, suicide 20-24 white (95.1, 20)

all-cause, suicide 20-24 black (140.8, 13.4)

all-cause, suicide 20-24 native (163.3, 42)

all-cause Asian (26.5, 44.2), suicide (8.6, 14.6).

asians have the lowest all cause at 20-24, and 

*brackets are for age groups (15-19, 20-24)

The number is even lower for 25-29 Asians, but similar in all races

All-cause Asian (26.5, 44.2), suicide (8.6, 14.6)

So young Asians have a much lower all cause and slightly lower suicide mortality.

Let's check by sex:

all causes, all races, male (72.7, 137.9), suicide (17.9, 27.2)

all causes, all races female (29.4, 50.9), suicide (5.4, 6.2)

all causes, Asian, male (35.9, 61.2), suicide (11.6, 21.4)

all causes, Asian, female (16.9, 26.8), suicide (5.4, 7.6)

As you can see Asians are still markedly lower on all cause mortality. Asian suicide is only somewhat lower for males, Asian females have the same rate from 15-19, but are slightly higher for the 20-24 group.