© firstpost.comNCRB data shows more self-employed and unemployed people took their own lives than farmers in 2018
New Delhi: An average 35 unemployed and 36 self-employed people ended their lives every day in 2018, with the two categories together accounting for 26,085 suicide deaths during the year, according to an official data.
Unemployed persons (12,936) were slightly behind those self-employed (13,149) who took their own lives, while both categories outnumbered the suicide figures of those working in the farming sector – 10,349— in 2018, the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data stated.
Overall, 1,34,516 suicides were reported in the country during 2018, showing an increase of 3.6 percent in comparison to 2017. The rate of suicides, which means deaths per one lakh population, also increased by 0.3 per cent during 2018 over 2017, the NCRB stated.