Another statistics about the same countries:
Suicide Rate Per 100k as of 2008 and Total Population
10. New Zealand Male 23.6 Female 5.8 Total Population 4,374,900
9. Netherlands Male 13.1 Female 6.5 Total Population 16,618,650
8. Finland Male 38.7 Female 10.7 Total Population 5,362,500
7. Australia Male 19.0 Female 5.1 Total Population 22,391,581
6. Japan Male 24.3 Female 11.5 Total Population 127,360,000
5. UK Male 11.0 Female 3.2 Total Population 62,041,708
4. France Male 30.4 Female 10.8 Total Population 65,447,374
3. Norway Male 19.1 Female 6.2 Total Population 4,887,600
2. Denmark Male 24.3 Female 9.8 Total Population 5,540,241
1. Sweden Male 20.0 Female 8.5 Total Population 9,359,742
Average rate of group M 22.35 F 7.81 Total Pop of Group 323,384,296
If all is warm and fuzzy without a god, suicide rates would be too small to calculate.
compare to:
United States Male 19.3 Female 4.4 Total Population 309,550,000
Canada Male 21.5 Female 5.4 Total Population 34,146,000
HDI and Life Exp
United States HDI: 13th Life Exp 79.1
Canada HDI: 4th Life Exp 80.6
Majority of both populations are religious in some way..Christian mostly.
I'd also like to point out that the UK has aprox 43.5 MILLION Christians. The data collected by the pic in OP is misleading and probably skewed. No
offense to the OP.
Edit to add sources, sorry:
Human Development Reports
and Wiki for the rest.
[edit on 21-6-2010 by primus2012]