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Do the Japanese count some murders as suicides?



In article <35ptco$3e5@pluto.njcc.com> bmullane@pluto.njcc.com (Brian Mullaney) writes:
> lambert@silver.cs.umanitoba.ca (Tim Lambert) writes:
 
> > The WHO Statistical Yearbook records a whole 47 child (14 or younger)
> >suicides in Japan in 1990.  That's half the US rate.
 
> Half the US rate per 100k, or did the US have 94 suicides of that type in 
> 1990, Tim?

The US had 264, giving a rate of 0.5 per 100k children.
The Japanese rate was 0.2 per 100k children.

Tim


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