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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Daily Wage Earners Made up the Largest Share of Total Suicides in 2020: NCRB Report

Daily Wage Earners Made up the Largest Share of Total Suicides in 2020: NCRB Report

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published Published on Oct 30, 2021   modified Modified on Nov 1, 2021

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The daily wage earners accounted for the largest number of suicides in absolute numbers, at 37,666 in 2020. The share of this category in all suicides has increased from 12% in 2014 to 24.6% in 2020.

Daily wage earners made up the largest share of total suicides in 2020, followed by self-employed and unemployed individuals, according to the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).

As per the report titled 'Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India 2020,' suicides in India increased by 10% from 2019 "to an all-time high of 1,53,052 in the pandemic year of 2020.". The highest percentage increase was seen in student suicides, with an increase of 21.20%. Along with that, the country's suicide rate- the number of suicides per lakh population- has also risen from 10.4% in 2019 to 11.3% in 2020.

The NCRB report divides suicides into nine different categories. The deaths are listed as daily wage earners, persons engaged in the farm sector, housewives, professional/salaries person, students, self-employed persons, retired and others.

The number of student suicides has been steadily increasing over the years. Student suicides increased from 10,335 in 2019 to 14,825 in 2020, with their share in total suicides going up from 7.4% to 8.2%, as per the NCRB report.

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Newsclick.in, 30 October, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/daily-wage-earners-made-largest-share-total-suicides-2020-NCRB-report


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