To interpret our findings, we compared our results with costs from other countries. We found such cost estimates for four other industrialized countries (Centre for Suicide Prevention, 2010; Yang & Lester, 2007). While methodological differences remain, the results were reasonably comparable to this study after converting each cost to per capita amounts in 2013 U.S. dollars. This was done by converting the foreign currency to U.S. dollars in the study year (XE Currency Converter), dividing by the population in the study year of Scotland (Wikipedia, 2015) Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and United States (World Bank, 2015b), respectively, and adjusting the amount for inflation, productivity growth, and technological change to 2013 using the growth in GDP per capita in the United States (World Bank, 2015a). Resulting per capita amounts and original sources were $84 for Canada (Smartrisk, 2009), $293 for Ireland (Health Services Executive, 2005), $299 for New Zealand (O'Dea & Tucker, 2005), and $489 for Scotland (Platt et al., 2006). The amount in the United States was $186 based on officially reported suicides and $298 with adjustment for underreporting. In
