Calls to Italy’s suicide hotline Telefono Amico were 24% up in the first six months of this year at over 4,200, mostly from young males, the hotline said Tuesday.

The number of people who took their own lives were 3,741 in 2023, the last year for which figures are available, according to Istat.

That was slightly down on 2022 when 3,874 people in Italy killed themselves.