Isolation is a killer

 

Note that population density axis is on a logarithmic scale

Suicide rate for 25-to-34 year-olds. Data from 2018, 2019 and 2020. Sorted by population density of the state the death occurred in. Outliers are Alaska on the left and Washington D.C. on the right.

Population density is in population per-square-mile.

This article laments the declining life expectancy of women born between 1981-and-1999. It blames lack of access to abortions and rising suicide rates. 

I find the numbers batted around in the article to be suspect. They claim that the maternal death-rate for women born between 1981 and 1999 to be 19.2 per 100k in 2017 while the CDC claims the death-rate due to pregnancies for women in that age cohort is 2.3 per 100k. It is very difficult to reconcile those numbers.

Looking more closely at the header of the chart, it says "per 100k births" but suggests 12% of the woman in that cohort gave birth in that year. That seems high.

It is also disingenuous to blend apples-and-oranges, i.e. all Millennials and then show death-rates for a small subset of them. The unsophisticated reader will think that they will be exposed to that rate every year and not just the years they are pregnant.

Ethically, that is the equivalent of saying "The death-rate due to rabies is 100k per 100k for those patients who have been diagnosed with rabies"