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		cube13 on Sept 13, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Anti-iPhone iPhone game makes it past Apple's revi... IIRC, it was something like 20 suicides in the last year, with Foxconn employing 300,000-400,000 people at the facility. According to wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...), the average total number of suicides per 100,000 in China is around 6.6. So you get, depending on the actual number of workers, either the national average for China, or slightly below it.

burgerbrain on Sept 14, 2011 | [–]

We should really be comparing the Foxconn suicide rate with the suicide rate of employed people in the surrounding area. I suspect that the currently unemployed may up a decent part of the general population suicide rate.

sambeau on Sept 13, 2011 | [–]

Its also lower than a similar demographic from the US.

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