For the five-year period 2011–2015, district health board regions with large rural areas — West Coast, Wairarapa, South Canterbury, and MidCentral — had higher suicide rates than the national average (around 11 per 100,000 people in 2015). The areas of lowest rates of suicide were the big cities of Auckland and Wellington, despite the claim by sociologist Emile Durkheim that urbanisation brought about social anomie (disconnection) and an increase in suicide.
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Source: Suicide Facts: Data tables 1996-2015, Ministry of Health, 2018
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