Suicides causing Japan $9bn losses

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Suicides causing Japan $9bn losses
GD News, Bahrain - 27 OctA high number of suicides in Japan is causing economic losses of more than $9 billion annually, newspapers said yesterday, citing a study by a state-run ... Suicides eroded Japan's gross domestic product by 992.8bn yen ($9.1bn) in 2002, up by more than 40 per cent from an annual average for 1995-1997 before the number of people who killed themselves increased, they said. The estimate was made by the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research....The figures are reportedly based mainly on accumulated income that the dead people could otherwise earn, with a possible rise in unemployment if there were no suicides taken into account.