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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by throwaway2037 on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @11:44AM (#48462610) 

    > extremely high suicide rates
This is no longer true. Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

Sort by "All" and you will see Japan is #30, far below many other highly developed nations.

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Re:Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M by aprilthird2021 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @01:11AM (#48471714)
Okay, fair enough. The rest is still true.

They're also very unhappy on average: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250410/p2a/00m/0na/01...

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