![]() Researchers at the University of Iowa found that farmers, and others in the agricultural trade, had the highest suicide rate of all occupations from 1992 to 2010, the years they studied in 2017. įarmers are among the most likely to die by suicide, in comparison to other occupations, according to a study published in January 2020 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In India more than 270,000 farmers have died by suicide since 1995. It mirrors a crisis happening globally: in Australia, a farmer dies by suicide every four days in the United Kingdom, one farmer a week takes their own life and in France it is one every two days. In the Midwest alone, over 1,500 farmers have taken their own lives since the 1980s. ![]() Farmland in Hull, Iowa, one of the states experiencing high levels of suicide among farmersįarmers' suicides in the United States refers to the national occurrences of farmers taking their own lives, largely since the 1980s, partly due to their falling into debt, but as a larger mental health crisis among U.S. ![]()
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