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> 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_r...

For example, on that list the US rates _worse_ than Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and are about the same as Finland.



The US is a large, heterogeneous nation and comparisons with small homogenous nations are misleading.


In what particular way is it misleading in this case, and in which direction?


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


TBH, I fired that off without fully getting the context. It's true, but not wholly relevant.




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