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Why measure "rich" at all and just go with life satisfaction surveys?

>>xnx+(OP)
North Africa countries have very very low suicide rates for the same reason. Many factors can change your self-reporting of events you go through.

>>xnx+(OP)
Because some cultures are "complaining" cultures, meaning they complain socially.

Others will find fault with the tiniest thing, even if 99% of everything is perfect.

And others can be incredibly content with very little. It gives absolutely no insight into how good life actually is anywhere.

>>xnx+(OP)
How about we measure how many are in poverty and try to push society to make that number zero everywhere?

>>eastbo+Ne
Morocco suicide rate: 7.2/100k Spain suicide rate: 8.4/100k Portugal suicide rate: 11.5/100k

And seems to vary with the economic situation just like everywhere else.

Plus quite a few North African countries ... well, they're just lying. Look at Egypt, even Tunisia ... these figures are just not possible, they're either misclassified or just lies.