surferboy wrote:
"The overall suicide rate fluctuated from 10.4 to 22.1 over the 1928–2007
period. It peaked in 1932, the last full year of the Great Depression"-"Impact of Business Cycles on US Suicide Rates, 1928–2007", American Journal of Public Health, June, 2011
The suicide rate in the former Soviet Union rose from 17.1 per 100,000 inhabitants in 1965 to 29.6 in 1984.

