13. Social, physical and life science
Rates of suicides per 100,000 people: 16.7
High ambition among scientists, who rank 13th on our list of occupations with most suicides, and who take up their discoveries as the most important part of their life – their ultimate goal, can explain why they go into depression upon some failure. It is stressful to make your job so important to kill all fun about it.
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