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 s greenland in the s and nunavut in the s today suicide rates among inuit are the highest in canada at eleven times the national average in greenland suicide rates by young men in east greenland reached a rate of per annum per in the s before beginning to decline these figures contrast starkly with historical records which indicate that inuit suicide rates were traditionally low given the tribes population of some individuals the yearlong spate of deaths adds up to a suicide rate of per people the overall suicide rate in colombia was per in according to government statistics