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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by zeroxfe on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:14PM (#22005156)
That's 2011 data. Most recent data is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

* Global rate: 10.5 per 100,000 people * Canada rate: 10.4 per 100,000 people * US rate: 13.7 per 100,000 people

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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by rwmurrayVT on Friday January 10, 2020 @09:16AM (#22011033)
Canada's suicide rate is also greatly impacted by the unfortunate prevalence of it among the native population. It's really quite sad to see. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_Canada#Among_Indige...

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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by akhilcacharya on Thursday January 09, 2020 @10:29PM (#22008099)
Wonder if this can be normalized with other factors that influence these things, like average daily sunlight and temperature...

Curious to see how Michigan would compare with Ontario or Alaska or Northern Washington would compare with British Columbia

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