44% of suicide victims are in age group of 18-45
By IndiaTomorrow.net,
New Delhi, 19 July 2015: More than 1.3 lakh people committed suicide in India in the year 2014 – Maharashtra with 16,307 suicides topping 29 states of the country. While family problems and illness accounted for 40% of all suicides, more than 40% of the suicide victims were in the age group of 18 to 45 years, says the Accidental Deaths & Suicides in India – 2014 report released by National Crime Records Bureau.
Top five states
According to the report, India witnessed 131,666 suicides in the year 2014 – some 58,002 (i.e. 44%) of them were committed by people in the age group of 18 and 45 years.
The highest incidents of 16,307 suicides were reported in Maharashtra followed by 16,122 suicides in Tamil Nadu and 14,310 suicides in West Bengal accounting for 12.4%, 12.2% and 10.9% respectively of total suicides. Karnataka (10,945 suicides) and Telangana (9,623 suicides) accounted for 8.3% and 7.3% respectively of the total suicides reported in the country. These 5 States together accounted for 51.1% of the total suicides reported in the country in 2014.
Causes of Suicides
‘Other Family Problems’ and ‘Illness’ were the major causes of suicides among the specified causes, accounting for 21.7% and 18.0% respectively of total suicides. ‘Marriage Related Issues’ (5.1%), ‘Love Affairs’ (3.2%), ‘Drug Abuse/Addiction’ (2.8%), ‘Bankruptcy or Indebtedness’ and ‘Failure in Examination’ both accounted for 1.8% each, ‘Unemployment’ (1.7%), ‘Poverty’ (1.3%), ‘Property Dispute’ (0.8%), ‘Death of Dear Person’ (0.7%) were other causes of suicides.
Suicide Victims by Sex and Age Group
The overall male: female ratio of suicide victims for the year 2014 was 67.7:32.3, showing a marginal increase of male and marginal decrease of female ratio as compared to year 2013 (67.2:32.8). The proportion of Boys: Girls suicide victims (below 14 years of age) were 52.3:47.7 in 2014 as compared to 53.5:46.5 in 2013.
