SUICIDE DATA IN INDIA (2012 STATISTICS)
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The suicide news of Mr. Sankar, Founder of SANKAR IAS ACADEMY, CHENNAI forced me to collect data about this subject. 👇
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Suicide in India (Based on 2012 data)
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India's suicide rate per 100,000 people compared to other countries, according to the World Health Organization, Geneva. Peeter Värnik claims China, India, Russia, United States, Japan, and South Korea are the biggest contributors to the absolute number of suicides in the world.
Värnik claims India's adjusted annual suicide rate is 10.5 per 100,000, while the suicide rate for the world as a whole is 11.6 per 100,000.
About 800,000 people commit suicide worldwide every year, of these 135,000 (17%) are residents of India, a nation with 17.5% of world population.
Between 1987 and 2007, the suicide rate increased from 7.9 to 10.3 per 100,000, with higher suicide rates in southern and eastern states of India.
In 2012, Tamil Nadu (12.5% of all suicides), Maharashtra (11.9%)
and West Bengal (11.0%) had the highest proportion of suicides.
Among large population states, Tamil Nadu and Kerala had the highest suicide rates per 100,000 people in 2012.
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Regional trends
The southern states of Kerala, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu along with eastern states of West Bengal, Tripura and Mizoram have a suicide rate of greater than 16 while it is less than 4 in Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
Puducherry reported the highest suicide rate at 36.8 per 100,000 people, followed by Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and Kerala.
The lowest suicide rates were reported in Bihar (0.8 per 100,000), followed by Nagaland and Manipur.
Age and suicide in India
In India, about 46,000 suicides occurred each in 15–29 and 30–44 age groups in 2012 – or about 34% each of all suicides.
Method of suicide in India
Poisoning (33%), hanging (26%) and self-immolation (9%) were the primary methods used to commit suicide in 2012.
Literacy
In 2012, 80% of the suicide victims were literate, higher than the national average literacy rate of 74%.
Suicide in cities
There were 19,120 suicides in India's largest 53 cities.
In the year 2012, Chennai reported the highest total number of suicides at 2,183, followed by Bengaluru(1,989), Delhi (1,397) and Mumbai (1,296). Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh) followed by Kollam (Kerala) reported the highest rate of suicides at 45.1 and 40.5 per 100,000 people respectively, about 4 times higher than national average rate.
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There is a wide variation in suicide rates, year to year, among Indian cities.
Gender
On average, males suicide rate is twice that of females. However, there is a wide variation in this ratio at the regional level. West Bengal reported 6,277 female suicides, the highest amongst all states of India, and a ratio of male to female suicides at 4:3.
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Prevention policies
Four pronged attack for suicide prevention
A four pronged attack to combat suicide suggested in a 2003 monograph was
(1) Reducing social isolation,
(2) Preventing social disintegration,
(3) Treating mental disorders and
(4) Regulating the sale of pesticides & ropes.
Additionally, a set of state led policies are being enforced to decrease the high suicide rate among farmers of Karnataka.
Source :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_India
Collected and abridged by
Ezhilarasan Venkatachalam
Salem, South India.
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Post Script :
The suicide news of Mr. Sankar, Founder of SANKAR IAS ACADEMY forced me to collect data about this.
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