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Re:Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails by churchill on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @05:32PM (#44882040)
It's so prevalent that Wikipedia has dedicated pages for specifically American, [0] Indian, [1] and Canadian [2] farmer suicides. In the US, farmer suicide rates are 3.5* the general population. The rate for the general population is between 2-4%, so for farmers it'd be 7%-14%, comparable to the rate for anesthesiologists, at 7%-17%. For physicians, it's just over 1%.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_Uni... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_India [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_Canada

Re:Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails by watwut on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @02:16AM (#44885158)
And yet, the top list of suicide per occupation do not have farmers. Miners, doctors, construction are higher.