>>1097586Measurement error and varying definition. Also universal health care that leads to marginalised people living to get a chance to take their own life rather than succumbing to the effects of """self medication""" and other issues.
Notice how suicide rates are actually marginally higher in the US than the Nordic countries at the right side of the graph now that we're starting to measure the same things.
>Sweden has a suicide rate which is below the OECD average.[1] During the 1960s, Sweden had one of the highest reported suicide rates in the First World, but it declined as methods for measuring were standardized internationally.[2]>According to a 2011 article in The New York Times, "Numerous studies have shown that places like Denmark and Sweden that consistently score high on measures of happiness and life satisfaction also have relatively high suicide rates." Said article also reported, "Some social scientists speculate that the trends are probably unrelated and can be explained by regional factors like dark winters or cultural differences regarding suicide."[5] 