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ELI5: Why does Finland have one of the highest suicide rates in the world (according to a 2015 study) when they are ranked as the happiest people in the world (2015 study)?
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Currently Finland has the 20th highest suicide rate in the world with 17.7 suicides per 100 000 people.

Possible reasons can be, in no particular order:

1) Seasonal Affective Disorder, when the sun starts coming up in the spring, people can go a little wonky after spending a long winter being depressed.

2) Binge drinking. If you develop a habit of getting drunk for the sake of being drunk, some people get all kinds of funny ideas in their head, especially after spending several days completely sloshed.

3) Medication gone wrong. Can't be overruled as a possible reason. Antidepressants might keep a lot of people relatively well off, but if people start skipping on their meds, or when Seasonal Affective Disorder jumbles up their system even with the meds, or if the meds are simply just not the right kind...things can go very, very wrong and very suddenly.

4) Low social cohesion. It's easy as shit to fall off the radar completely in Finland. If you don't put an effort to contact your friends, often times they start thinking that maybe you just want to spend some time alone, or that you don't want any company. So then we get in a situation where social people are well enough socializing, but the not-so-social people can be completely and utterly alone without any contact with anyone, except maybe the grocery store clerk, for days or weeks, or maybe even months. Some people might develop some funny ideas, especially if they're not the most stable in the first place.

5) Recession. This one hit hard in the 90's and now we've fallen in the same crack. For a lot of people work provides a lot of their social relationships, stability, routine and purpose in life. And since a lot of jobs can be highly specialized, and the competition in the markets is fierce enough to push a lot of the possible competition out from the get-go, that means that when a factory or firm closes and you lose your job, that's it. You've bought your house, you've managed to pay your mortgage, you've built your life in who knows where in the backwoods because the company operates there and boom, shop's closed, so now you're in the middle of nowhere and you don't have enough money to get somewhere else, so you're in a dead-end town, with a degree that won't get you anywhere since there are no jobs available and you're screwed. Now if you happen to owe money to a bank on top of this, you're royally buggered. Top that with the alcohol abuse and you might start to develop some funny ideas pretty soon.