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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Over 3,500 Deaths By Suicide Amongst Unemployed in 2020, Government Tells Rajya Sabha

Over 3,500 Deaths By Suicide Amongst Unemployed in 2020, Government Tells Rajya Sabha

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published Published on Feb 10, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 10, 2022

-TheWire.in

This marks the first time in the recent past when the number of deaths by suicide among unemployed people has crossed the 3,000 mark.

New Delhi: In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, February 9, Union minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai, citing data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), said that 3,548 people died by suicide due to unemployment in 2020.

The figure, observed in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, marks the first time in the recent past that the number of recorded deaths by suicide among the unemployed in the country crossed the 3,000 mark, Indian Express reported.

Since the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) came to power in 2014, the country has seen 18,772 deaths by suicides among the unemployed with an average of 2,681 such deaths per year.

In the last seven years of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, the total number of deaths by suicide stood at 15,332 with an average of 2,188 such deaths per year.

The NCRB data also reveals that in 2020, the states with the highest number of deaths by suicide among the unemployed were Karnataka (720), Maharashtra (625), Tamil Nadu (336), Assam (234), and Uttar Pradesh (227). The total number of deaths by suicide in 2020 was 1.53 lakh.

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TheWire.in, 10 February, 2022, https://thewire.in/government/over-3500-deaths-by-suicide-amongst-unemployed-in-2020-government-tells-rajya-sabha


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