Unlike most other places, suicide rates are getting worse in the US.

Here's an article about middle-age white men saying that they are economically and opportunity pressed.

But here's a sampling of 2000-2012 world-wide data from the World Health Organization:
Preventing Suicide, A Global Imperative, WHO, 2014

age-standardized suicide rate change 2000-012 all ages

Wow! What's going on in the US?