As one of the few countries in the world, Denmark has secured a radical decline in the suicide rate over the last 40 years. Historically, the Danish suicide rate was among the highest in the world but the rate began declining in 1980 where 38 suicide deaths per 100,000 inhabitants were counted until 2007 where it had reached a level of 11 suicide deaths per 100,000; a reduction to one third of its originally level. The recipe for this success story is listed in SCIENCE.
In the same issue, a series of articles lay out recent and on-going achievements in suicide prevention.
Link to SCIENCE EDITORIAL:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/365/6455/725.full.pdf