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Anecdotally, I've heard Scandinavia has a similarly high rate, for the same reason.

• CogitoCogito 7y ago
  > Anecdotally, I've heard Scandinavia has a similarly high rate, for the same reason. Why are you posting your anecdotes like this? You have access to the internet after all: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate#List_by_the_World_Health_Organization_(2016) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r... For example, on that list the US rates _worse_ than Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and are about the same as Finland.
  • ben509 7y ago
    The US is a large, heterogeneous nation and comparisons with small homogenous nations are misleading.
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    • dagw 7y ago
      In what particular way is it misleading in this case, and in which direction?
      • pkaye 7y ago
        An interesting thing is in the US, native-americans and white population has 2-3x the suicide rate as blacks, hispanics and asians. https://www.sprc.org/racial-ethnic-disparities https://www.sprc.org/racial-ethnic-disparities
      • ben509 7y ago
        TBH, I fired that off without fully getting the context. It's true, but not wholly relevant.