The government data released by South Korea has made a shocking disclosure. According to government data, more than 7 thousand people committed suicide in the first half of this year. Statistics, according to Korea’s data, a total of 7,067 people committed suicide between January and June, which is slightly less than the 7,844 number last year, but is equal to 7,142 people in the first half of 2023.
In these figures, people over 50 years of age have the highest 22.4 percent share. This is followed by 40 years (19 percent), 60 years (15.1 percent), 30 years (13.5 percent) and 70 years (9.8 percent) people. The rest of the number is from other age groups.
Need for public health intervention
Experts say that suicides should not only be seen as a personal problem, but also as a broad social and structural problem and requires public health intervention.
In an article recently published in the International Social Security Review of Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs (KIHAASA), researcher Choi Min-J, Korea University Graduate School of Public Health Researcher Choi Minj, said that the government should move beyond the interventions targeted for high-risk groups and include selective and universal measures addressing risks in general population.
Birth rate increased in South Korea
He also urged the establishment of a comprehensive control center to assess how fiscal, labor, and other policies can affect suicides and where such risks are identified, all measures can be implemented correctly.
South Korea currently has the highest suicidal rate in South Korea, which was 26.2 per 100,000 people per 100,000 people, which is more than 10.8 of the OECD average of 10.8. Earlier this week, government data showed that the number of children born in South Korea in July increased by about 6 percent compared to the previous year. One reason for this is an increase in weddings.
Between January and July, so many children were born
According to statistics Korea’s data, a total of 21,803 children were born in July, which is 5.9 percent more than the birth of 20,580 children last year. This is a record of annual growth for the 13th consecutive month, but the fourth lowest figure of July since the government recorded records in 1981.
A total of 147,804 children were born between January and July. This figure shows an increase of 7.2 percent as compared to the same period last year, which is the highest growth rate since 1981. This was the first time since 2015, when an annual increase in the number of newborns was recorded during the January-July time. The average number of children expected in her lifetime, ie a woman, increased by 0.04 in July to 0.8 in July.
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