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Old 09-11-2013, 05:07 PM
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Default Sweeden #44
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Originally Posted by jblum315 View Post
I dunno. I've always heard there are more suicides in Sweden than any other country, yet it's ranked as 5th happiest out of a hundred?
According to Wikipedia, Sweeden is ranked 44 out of 110 countries listed at 11.1 suicides per 100,000 people. For context the USA is ranked 33 at 12 suicides per 100,000 people.

Maybe you were thinking about Greenland, it is #1 and off the charts.

Come to your own conclusions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...y_suicide_rate
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