  The estimates of overall strange quark production in high energy e+e-, pp and
ppbar collisions by using the statistical-thermal model of hadronisation are
presented and compared with previous works. The parametrization of strangeness
suppression within the model is discussed. Interesting regularities emerge in
the strange/non-strange produced quark ratio which turns out to be fairly
constant in elementary collisions while it is twice as large in SPS heavy ion
collision.
