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  suicide rates (per 100,000) for various countries
	for three time periods, with source information
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(note the ranking changed little throughout.)

		     1967-68  1980-86  1987-91

	Hungary		33.7	45.3	36.9
	Austria		21.9	28.3	20.6
	Sweden		21.6	18.5	17.4
	W.Germany (FRG)	21.3	43.1	13.9
	Denmark		20 *	27.8	20.9
	Finland		 ---	26.6	28.6

	Switzerland	17.3	22.8	20.7
	France		15.3	22.7	19.0
	Belgium		15 *	23.8	21.2
	Japan		14.1	21.2	15.0

	Australia	12.7	11.6	13.3
	USA		10.8	12.3	12.0
	New Zealand	10 *	10.3	13.8
	UK		 9.1	 8.9	 7.4

	Norway		 7.0	14.1	15.1
	Netherlands	 6.3	11.0	 9.3
	Italy		 5.4	 7.6	 6.8

	Philippines	 0.8 *	 0.5	 ---
	Mexico		 0.7 *	 1.6	 ---
	Egypt		 0.1 *	 0.1	 ---

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notes: 
--- for UK, data for 1980-1986 and 1987-1991 are for England & Wales.

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sources:

--- 1967-1968: "The Encyclopedia Americana" (1992)
	the ones with "*" are from two Japanese encyclopedias

--- 1980-1986: WHO Data bank, from [book] "Current research on
	suicide and parasuicide" (1989), Table 2b.

--- 1987-1991: "Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1994"
	Table No. 1359