One researcher has correlated suicide rates among Inuit peoples in Alaska, Nunavut and Greenland with the period when governments encouraged them to move from their traditional territories to villages and towns. The trend began in north Alaska in the 1960s, Greenland in the 1970s and Nunavut in the 1980s.49 Today, suicide rates among Inuit are the highest in Canada, at eleven times the national average".50 In Greenland, suicide rates by young men in East Greenland reached a rate of 1,500 per annum per 100,000 in the 1990s, before beginning to decline.51 These figures contrast starkly with historical records, which indicate that Inuit suicide rates were traditionally low. Given the tribes' population of some 3,000 individuals, "the yearlong spate of deaths adds up to a suicide rate of 500 per 100,000 people. The overall suicide rate in Colombia was 4.4 per 100,000 in 2003, according to government statistics.