Mariella Frostrup was cited as saying: > Look at the poor Scandinavians, with the best social > system in Europe, if not the world, and yet they regularly top the global > suicide list.
If this was ever true, it is no longer true, except perhaps for Iceland. In fact, Denmark, Sweden and Norway are way down the list. http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/hea_sui_rat_gen_rat As you can see, the highest _reported_ recent rates, out of 76 countries returning figures there, appear to be in Latin American and ex-Soviet states, which makes some kind of sense. (Little data there for Africa or southern Asia.) And it is also well known there is a big problem with comparative suicide stats, because of differences in official and social practices in some countries.
