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The US actually has a higher suicide rate than Japan in according to World Health Organisation data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide

• dilap 4y ago
  Interesting, thanks. It looks like over the last 20 years Japan has made a lot of progress on suicide, and the USA, sadly, has been going the wrong direction -- and they've recently crossed over. So both USA and Japan are higher than the European average, and much higher than an (apparently) happy European country, like Italy. I do think my broader point stands, which is maybe the things we think makes a country nice aren't necessarily the things that will make people feel happy and satisifed.