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Govt. reveals suicides due to unemployment were highest in pandemic-affected 2020

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eMediNexus    10 February 2022

The Ministry of Home Affairs informed the Rajya Sabha Wednesday that more than 16,000 people committed suicide because of bankruptcy or indebtedness and 9,140 committed suicide because of unemployment from 2018 to 2020. 

The highest number of suicides due to unemployment (3,548) were reported in 2020, the year a lockdown was imposed on account of COVID-19 and there were large scale job losses and economic slowdown in several sectors. A total of 5,213 people committed suicide because of bankruptcy or indebtedness in 2020, 5,908 in 2019 and 4,970 in 2018. A total of 2,851 people committed suicide due to unemployment in 2019 and 2,741 in 2018… (The Hindu, February 10, 2022)

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