From the teenage years upwards, the rate of suicide among Taiwan's aboriginals far exceeds the national average, particularly among males in their prime years. According to work by Chang Li-yun, a researcher at Academia Sinica's Institute of Ethnology, the rate of death by human causes (including suicide and alcoholism-related liver cirrhosis) in this category is six times the national average.
原住民的自殺死亡率從青少年階段就遠高於台灣的平均自殺死亡率，特別是生產年齡層的男性人口，根據中研院民族所研究員張笠雲的研究，原住民男性生產年齡層、人為因素的死亡率（包括自殺、酗酒引發的肝硬化），是台灣地區的六倍。