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New Delhi: Daily wage earners constituted the single largest occupational demographic of the 1,70,746 cases of deaths by suicide recorded in India during 2024, accounting for 52,910 deaths or 31% of the national aggregate, according to latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). This number is considerably higher than the next largest occupational group, ‘housewives’ (22,113), and other dominant categories such as ‘other persons’ (20,184)  and ‘self-employed persons’ (17,886).

Percentage Distribution of Suicide Victims by Profession During 2024, Photo: NCRB Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India, 2024.

Daily wage earners were also the largest occupational group impacted in 2023, making up 28% (47,170) of all deaths by suicide during........

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