15 Suicides Take Place Every Hour in India

[Omar1984]

New Delhi: Fifteen suicides take place every hour in India and a majority (69.2 per cent) of the suicide victims are married while 30.8 per cent un-married, according to latest government statistics. One suicide out of every 5 is committed by a housewife, said the statistics released today in the form of a report.

"It is observed that social and economic causes have led most of the males to commit suicide whereas emotional and personal causes have mainly driven females to end their lives," the report, released by Home Minister P Chidambaram, said.

Over 41 percent of suicide victims were self-employed while only 7.5 per were un-employed. More than one lakh persons (1,34,599) in the country lost their lives by committing suicide during the year 2010 and nearly 70.5 per cent of the suicide victims were married males while 67.0 per cent were married females, according to the report of the National Crime Record Bureau for 2010.

Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh accounted for 65.8 per cent of suicide victims in the age group 60 years and above. Suicides because of 'family problems' (23.7 per cent) and 'illness' (21.0 per cent) combined accounted for 44.7 per cent of total suicides, said the report. The percentage of suicides due to 'property dispute' and 'death of dear person' showed a relatively higher increase of 48.0 per cent and 28.9 per cent respectively. The overall male:female ratio of suicide victims for the year 2009 was 65:35. However, the proportion of boys:girls suicide victims (up to 14 years of age) was 52:48.


Among 25 cities, Jabalpur has reported the highest rate of 41.5 and Kolkata reported the lowest rate at 2.1. The pattern of suicides reported from 35 cities showed that 'hanging' (44.5 per cent), 'poisoning' (20.6 per cent) and 'fire/self-immolation' (12.6 per cent) were the means used the suicide victims in the cities.

There is a significant increase in the number of suicides (136.5 per cent) in Patna (from 63 in 2009 to 149 in 2010) while Dhanbad showed a sharp decline of 60.5 per cent (from 152 suicides in 2009 to 60 suicides in 2010). The suicide rate in cities (12.7) was higher as compared to All-India suicide rate (11.4).

Tamil Nadu has reported significant increase in suicides (16,561) in 2010 over 2009 (14,424) (an increase of 14.8 per cent) followed by Maharashtra (from 14,300 in 2009 to 15,916 in 2010), the report said.

The highest number of mass/family suicides cases were reported from Bihar (23) followed by Kerala (22) and Madhya Pradesh (21) and Andhra Pradesh (20), out of 109 cases. 33.1 per cent of the suicide victims consumed poison, 31.4 per cent died by hanging, 8.8 per cent by fire/self-immolation and 6.2 per cent by drowning. The trend of suicide by hanging has been mixed during last three years (32.2 per cent in 2008, 31.5 per cent in 2009 and 31.4 per cent in 2010) while suicide by poisoning has shown decreasing trend in 2007 and 2008 (34.8 per cent in 2008, 33.6 per cent in 2009 and 33.1 per cent in 2010). Bengaluru (1,778), Chennai (1,325), Delhi (1,242) and Mumbai (1,192) the four cities together have reported almost 40.5 per cent of the total suicides reported from 35 mega cities.



15 commit suicide every hour in India, majority victims married: Report

 

[blood]

otal Year
Suicides per 100,000 people per year[3]
1 Lithuania 58.5 8.8 31.5 2009
2 South Korea[4] (more information) N/A N/A 31.0 2009
3 Kazakhstan 46.2 9.0 26.9 2007
4 Belarus[5][6] N/A N/A 25.3 2010
5 Japan (more information)[7][8] 36.5 14.3 24.6 2010
6 Russia[9] N/A N/A 23.5 2010
7 Guyana 33.8 11.6 22.9 2005
8 Ukraine[10] 40.9 7.0 22.6 2005
9 Hungary[11] 37.1 8.8 21.8 2009
10 Sri Lanka[12] N/A N/A 21.6 1996
11 Latvia[11] 37.6 6.7 20.7 2009
12 Slovenia[13] 32.1 7.9 19.8 2008
13 Serbia and Montenegro 28.4 11.1 19.5 2006
14 Finland[11] 27.3 9.5 18.3 2009
15 Belgium[note 1][11] 26.5 9.3 17.6 2009
16 France 25.5 9.0 17.0 2006
17 Estonia[11] 29.1 6.2 16.5 2008
18 Sweden 26.0 6.3 15.8 2007
19 Moldova 28.0 4.3 15.7 2007
20 South Africa[14] 25.3 5.6 15.4 2005
21 Hong Kong [15] 18.4 9.8 13.8 2009
22 Poland 26.8 4.4 15.2 2006
23 Switzerland[11] 21.8 9.1 15.1 2007
24 Croatia[11] 26.1 5.5 15.0 2009
25 Suriname 23.9 4.8 14.4 2005
26 Uruguay 18.1 8.3 13.2 2004
27 Seychelles[16] N/A N/A 13.2 1998
28 New Zealand[17] 20.3 6.5 13.2 2008
29 Austria[11] 20.9 5.7 12.8 2009
30 Czech Republic[11] 21.8 3.7 12.4 2009
31 Cuba 19.6 4.9 12.3 2006
32 Trinidad and Tobago 20.4 4.0 12.0 2002
33 Bosnia and Herzegovina 20.3 3.3 11.8 1991
34 Canada[18] 17.9 5.4 11.6 2005
35 Ireland[11] 18.6 4.7 11.6 2009
36 Norway 16.8 6.0 11.4 2006
37 Romania 18.9 4.0 11.3 2007
38 Iceland[19] 17.9 4.5 11.3 2009
39 United States (more information) 17.7 4.5 11.1 2005
40 Denmark[11] 16.0 5.7 10.6 2006
41 India (more information) 12.2 9.1 10.6 1998
42 Mauritius 16.0 4.8 10.4 2007
43 Singapore 12.9 7.7 10.3 2006
44 Slovakia[11] 19.8 1.9 10.3 2009
45 Australia[20] 14.9 4.5 9.7 2009
46 United Kingdom 17.7 5.4 11.3 2008
47 Chile 17.4 3.4 10.3 2005
48 Bulgaria[11] 16.3 4.6 10.1 2008
49 Germany[11] 15.1 4.4 9.5 2009
50 Kyrgyzstan 14.4 3.7 9.0 2006
51 Turkmenistan 13.8 3.5 8.6 1998
52 Netherlands [11] 12.0 5.0 8.5 2009
53 Costa Rica 13.2 2.5 8.0 2006
54 Republic of Macedonia[11] 12.6 3.9 8.0 2009
55 Portugal[11] 13.2 3.4 7.9 2008
56 Argentina 12.7 3.4 7.9 2005
57 Zimbabwe 10.6 5.2 7.9 1990
58 Luxembourg[11] 13.2 2.9 7.8 2008
59 Thailand 12.0 3.8 7.8 2002
60 Saint Lucia 10.4 5.0 7.7 2002
61 Belize 13.4 1.6 7.6 2001
62 Puerto Rico 13.2 2.0 7.4 2005
63 Nicaragua 11.1 3.3 7.2 2005
64 Ecuador 9.1 4.5 6.8 2006
65 El Salvador 10.2 3.7 6.8 2006
66 People's Republic of China [21] (more information) 19.7 8 13.85 2008
67 Malta 12.3 0.5 6.4 2007
68 Spain[11] 11.4 3.3 7.3 2009
69 Grenada 9.8 1.9 5.9 2005
70 Israel[22] 9.9 2.1 5.8 2007
71 Panama 10.4 0.8 5.7 2006
72 Italy[11] 8.4 2.3 5.2 2007
73 Colombia 7.8 2.1 4.9 2005
74 Uzbekistan 7.0 2.3 4.7 2005
75 Brazil 7.3 1.9 4.6 2005
76 Paraguay 5.5 2.7 4.1 2004
77 Albania[23] 4.7 3.3 4.0 2008
78 Mexico 6.8 1.3 4.0 2008
79 Turkey[24] 5.36 2.50 3.94 2008
80 Venezuela 6.1 1.4 3.8 2005
81 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 7.3 0.0 3.7 2004
82 Cyprus[11] 5.9 1.3 3.6 2009
83 Bahrain 4.9 0.5 3.1 1988
84 Greece[11] 5.2 0.9 3.0 2009
85 Tajikistan 2.9 2.3 2.6 2001
86 Armenia 3.9 1.0 2.4 2006
87 Guatemala 3.6 1.1 2.3 2006
88 Georgia 3.4 1.1 2.2 2001
89 Philippines 2.5 1.7 2.1 1993
90 Kuwait 2.5 1.4 2.0 2002
91 Pakistan [25] 2.0 2008
92 Egypt 0.1 0.0 0.0 1987
93 Dominican Republic 2.6 0.6 1.6 2004
94 Jordan 0.0 0.0 1.1 2009
95 The Bahamas 1.9 0.0 1.0 2002
96 Peru 1.1 0.6 0.9 2000
97 São Tomé and Príncipe 0.0 1.8 0.9 1987
98 Barbados 1.4 0.0 0.7 2001
99 Azerbaijan 1.0 0.3 0.6 2007
100 Maldives 0.7 0.0 0.3 2005
101 Iran 0.3 0.1 0.2 1991
102 Jamaica 0.3 0.0 0.1 1990
103 Syria 0.2 0.0 0.1 1985
104 Honduras 0.0 0.0 0.0 1978
105 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0 0.0 0.0 1995
106 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0 0.0 0.0 1995
107 Haiti 0.0 0.0 0.0 2003
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[marcos98]

Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan

Pakistan suicide rate on rise

More of our men are committing suicide: experts

Daily Times Monitor

KARACHI: Suicide has become a major public health problem in Pakistan but despite this there are no official statistics and national rates are unknown. Rates for men are consistently higher than women; the highest rates for men were between the ages 20-40 years in Larkana. Given the stigma, experts believe these figures to be an underestimate.

To determine rates experts carried out an analysis of suicide reports from six cities in Pakistan. Their findings were put together in an article ‘Epidemiology of Suicide in Pakistan: Determining Rates in Six Cities’ that appeared in the ‘Archives of Suicide Research’ in April.

Suicide is one of the ten leading causes of death in the world today, accounting for almost a million deaths worldwide annually. Along with neuro-psychiatric disorders, suicide contributes 12.7% to the global burden of disease. Information on suicide from Islamic countries is lacking, including those with populations exceeding 100 million people such as Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Pakistan.

There are no official data on suicide from Pakistan. Data on suicide is not included in the national annual mortality statistics. As a result, national rates on suicide are neither known nor reported to the WHO.

Pakistan’s population of 162 million makes it the sixth most populous country in the world. Ninety-seven percent of its people are Muslims, while Hindus, Christians, and Zoroastrians form smaller but important minorities. Official unemployment stands at 12% of the eligible workforce. Health spending is 0.7% of the national annual budget. Mental health does not have a separate budget but is believed to be 0.1% of the health budget.

Under Pakistani law both suicide and deliberate self-harm (DSH) are illegal acts, punishable with a jail term and a heavy financial penalty. Every case of suicide or attempted suicide must be taken to one of the government hospitals designated “medico-legal center” (MLC), where the police register a case and conduct an enquiry into the circumstances of the act. In practice, although prosecution is rare, harassment and extortion of money from survivors and their families is not uncommon. People avoid going to the MLCs and many seek treatment from private hospitals that neither diagnose such cases as suicide nor report them to the police. There are also strong social sanctions against suicide and families are often ostracized. For these reasons suicide is under-researched and under-studied in Pakistan.

Despite this there is compelling evidence that incidences of suicide have increased in Pakistan in recent years. The lay press in Pakistan regularly report on suicide incidences in Pakistan. These news reports are based on surveys of police stations of different cities and reports of NGOs that collect information on suicides. There is therefore need to gather evidence to inform policy for development of preventive programs.

The absence of suicide rates in Pakistan is a major impediment in informing policy, monitoring suicide incidences or estimating effectiveness of suicide prevention programs. The six cities include capital cities of three provinces, i.e., Karachi (Sindh province), Lahore (Punjab province), and Peshawar (NWFP province), while the other three cities (Faisalabad, Rawalpindi, and Larkana) have populations in excess of a million people. Only one province, i.e., Balochistan (capital Quetta) is not represented in our study.

Suicide rates in Islamic countries are considerably lower than other countries. In 1989 experts carried out a 71 nation cross-national analysis and showed when factors such as social, economic, and demographic modernity are controlled, Islam has an independent effect on lowering suicide rates. However, there is good evidence from a number of Islamic countries such as Iran, Turkey and Bangladesh that suicide occurs regularly in Islamic countries. In a recent study of suicide and undetermined deaths in 17 Islamic countries, experts argue that in many Islamic countries culturally unacceptable suicidal deaths may be hidden in the “Other Violent Death (OVD)” category, thereby artificially lowering suicide rates in these countries.

The study highlights that suicide not only occurs regularly in Pakistan but rates are not as negligible as generally believed. When age- and gender-specific rates are calculated, they show much higher figures. It is important to note we used denominator of 20-59 years age group, as population percentage was available for this, rather than 20-40 age group. Therefore, rates are lower than would have been obtained with a lower denominator, i.e., 20-40 years age group.

Currently, when a death of a person occurs, the head of the family is supposed to report it to the municipal administration within four days. For this a register is maintained in the town council office. Although there is a column for cause of death, this is filled according to the statement of the person notifying the administration of the death. Death certificates issued by hospitals usually state “cardio-respiratory arrest/failure” rather than suicide.

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Global phenomenon though sad.



Try harder and find news that happens only in India

 

[blood]

according to this list india is on 41 position behind so called developed nations like USA and FRANCE and remember india is a nation of 100 crore people ......so before bullshitting go through the stats

 

[Omar1984]

15 suicides every hour in India means 360 suicides every day in India, which means 131,400 people commit suicide every year in India.

 

[chauvunist]

And yet they point their fingers towards us....

 

[marcos98]

15 suicides every hour in India means 360 suicides every day in India, which means 131,400 people commit suicide every year in India.

166 People Committed Suicide In Pakistan In One Month: Report | MedIndia


Pakistan trying hard to keep up.......

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Suicide on the rise in Pakistan; 1,600 lives lost - Dawn[/B]

KARACHI: Sixteen hundred people took their lives during the last 10 months in Pakistan, DawnNews quoted the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) as saying.

The HRCP, moreover, expressed its concern over the increasing trend of suicide and stated that some 800 people had also unsuccessfully attempted to take their own lives.

The commission sighted poverty and hopelessness as the main reasons behind the troubling trend.

The HRCP lamented that the government was least concerned over the issue and urged it to take steps which would restore confidence in the people and help curb the trend.

Suicide on the rise in Pakistan; 1,600 lives lost | Pakistan | DAWN.COM

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

I guess the Indians don't like a taste of their own medicine.

They were perfectly fine with starting and supporting this thread yesterday:

http://www.defence.pk/forums/curren...cide-rise-pakistan-1-600-lives-lost-dawn.html

 

[Baby Leone]

it seems the situation in india is more pathetic than it seems......instead of arming india against china US should aid their ppls to get a good life...i hav heared that last year more than 0.1 milllion indians comit suicide....:O
so sad....

 

[Omar1984]

166 People Committed Suicide In Pakistan In One Month: Report | MedIndia


Pakistan trying hard to keep up.......

In just one day, your shining india sees more than twice the number of suicides that Pakistan sees in an entire month. Why are so many people committing suicide in shining superpower india???

 

[Baby Leone]

I guess the Indians don't like a taste of their own medicine.

They were perfectly fine with starting and supporting this thread yesterday:

http://www.defence.pk/forums/curren...cide-rise-pakistan-1-600-lives-lost-dawn.html

hahhah
its their old habbit......i guess u dont understand this creature...

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In just one day, your shining india sees more than twice the number of suicides that Pakistan sees in an entire month. Why are so many people committing suicide in shining superpower india???

in this reply u will get another Pakistan bashing news... dont xpect ans...

 

[alimukhtar]

I think this topic is so sensitive and we have to take it as humanitarianism not as patriotism....... either a person is committing suicide due to hunger in Pakistan or in India its so sad and in Pakistan we have to take some preliminary actions to overcome on this issue

 

[nForce]

the rate seems quite low considering a population of 1.3 billion

 

[jayron]

WE should also make a survey of no. of suicide bombers in each country. It will give a good estimate of where loonies and angry people live.

 

[alimukhtar]

WE should also make a survey of no. of suicide bombers in each country. It will give a good estimate of where loonies and angry people live.

if the same happens den you ppl should not took survey in areas like tamil, bengal, etc etc where you are facing militancy and if the same happens you will become the top 1 country with hunger and loonies