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Between 2014 and 2018, over 450 more committed suicide, [3] although the actual total is believed to be higher because not every state provided suicide data for each year, some redacted portions of the data, [3] and some reported the deaths as agricultural accidents. [7] 75 farmers committed suicide across six Midwestern states in 2017. That ...
In a study of 212 Native youths (of the average age of 12) living on or near reservations in the upper Midwestern United States, Yoder et al. found that the girls were more than twice as likely to think of suicide than the boys. [3] American Indian and Alaska Native women are at a higher rate to experience violence with 84% experiencing ...
From 1995 to 2013, a total of 296,438 Indian farmers died by suicide. [11] During the same period, about 9.5 million people died per year in India from other causes including malnutrition, diseases and suicides that were non-farming related, or about 171 million deaths from 1995 to 2013. [81]
A 2018 report highlighted the fact that male farmers, ranchers, and agricultural managers were nearly twice as likely to die by suicide as the general working population (32.2 suicides per 100,000 people compared to 17.3 suicides per 100,000 people, respectively). [1] Note, in 2020 male suicide rates are 3.88 times higher than female rates. [2]
More women in the U.S. are using firearms in suicide deaths, a new federal report says. Firearms were used in more than half the country’s record 49,500 suicide deaths in 2022, Centers for ...
From 2018 to 2021, the suicide rate increased by nearly 20% for African Americans, while the Native American rate increased by 26%. White Americans were the only group in America to experience a decline in suicide rate. The age-adjusted non-Hispanic white suicide rate declined by nearly 4%. [52] In 2006, suicide rates were higher for older ...
Female farmers warn of mental ... “It should be of huge concern to every one of us that the suicide rate among male farmers is three times the national average, and the highest among any sector ...
These individuals typically commit suicide using pesticides. [10] In fact, farmers in some rural parts of India are twice as likely to commit suicide than urban Indians. [10] From 1997 to 2012, over 180,000 farmers committed suicide in India due to the burden of debt. [5] In 2016, there were over 11,000 suicides by Indian farmers. [29]