Daily wage earners, self-employed, jobless: Top categories who died by suicide in 2021

New Delhi: Daily wage earners followed by self-employed people, unemployed people and people involved in the farming sector were the top categories of the population who died by suicide in 2021, a Covid-19 pandemic year.

According to a latest report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), a total of 1,64,033 people died by suicide in 2021 across the country.

Out of the total 1,18,979 male suicides, maximum suicides were among daily wage earners (37,751) followed by self-employed people (18,803) and unemployed people (11,724), the report said. A total of 45,026 women died by suicide during this period in the country.

A total of 10,881 people involved in the farming sector consisting of 5,318 farmers and cultivators and 5,563 agricultural labourers died by suicide during 2021, accounting for 6.6 per cent of the total suicide victims in the country.

Out of 5,318 farmer and cultivator suicides, a total of 5,107 were males and 211 were females.

A majority of the victims engaged in the farming sector were reported from Maharashtra (37.3 per cent), Karnataka (19.9 per cent), Andhra Pradesh (9.8 per cent), Madhya Pradesh (6.2 per cent) and Tamil Nadu (5.5 per cent).

Out of 5,563 suicides among agricultural labourers during 2021, 5,121 were men and 442 were women.

Certain States and Union Territories namely, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Tripura, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Chandigarh, Lakshadweep and Puducherry reported zero suicides of farmers and cultivators as well as agriculture labourers. Government servants accounted for 1.2 per cent (1,898) as compared to 7.0 per cent (11,431) from Private Sector Enterprises out of 1,64,033 of total victims.

Employees from Public Sector Undertakings (PSU) formed 1.5 per cent (2,541), whereas students and unemployed victims accounted for 8.0 per cent (13,089 victims) and 8.4 per cent (13,714 victims) of total suicides respectively.

Self-employed category accounted for 12.3 per cent of total suicide victims (20,231 out of 1,64,033).

A total of 64.2 per cent (1,05,242) of suicide victims in 2021 had an annual income of less than Rs 1 lakh. 31.6 per cent (51,812) of suicide victims belonged to the annual income group of Rs 1 lakh to less than Rs 5 lakh.

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