Here's an old article where researchers try to find a suicide rate due to unemployment.
Unemployment causes 45,000 suicides a year worldwide, finds study
https://www.theguardian.com/society...s-45000-suicides-a-year-worldwide-finds-study
The U-3 unemployment rate during the last recession in 2009 was around 10% in the US. According to calculations on the current situation, the U-3 unemployment rate will be around 30% or higher. So basically, the risk of suicide will be three times larger, at least 150,000 people just by extrapolating the data.
Unemployment causes 45,000 suicides a year worldwide, finds study
https://www.theguardian.com/society...s-45000-suicides-a-year-worldwide-finds-study
The U-3 unemployment rate during the last recession in 2009 was around 10% in the US. According to calculations on the current situation, the U-3 unemployment rate will be around 30% or higher. So basically, the risk of suicide will be three times larger, at least 150,000 people just by extrapolating the data.
In those shoes I would have killed myself at least 5 times so far (ok, no need to say how I should have done it!).
