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Suicide deaths per 100,000 people. A proxy for social isolation and economic stress.
Source: Statistics Bureau, MIC — Social Indicators by Prefecture (I: Health & Medical)
Replay how all 47 prefectures reordered over 24 years of records.
Suicide deaths per 100,000 people. A proxy for social isolation and economic stress.
▲ The top 5 prefectures are tinted sky, ▼ the bottom 5 amber — just enough colour to follow the two ends of the “desirable direction.”
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