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.
UNEMPLOYMENT RESULTED IN ONLY 7.5% OF SUICIDE VICTIMS. ON CONTRARY 41.1% WERE SELF-EMPLOYED
Fifteen suicides were committed every hour in India in 2010 with those married constituting the majority (69.2 per cent) of the victims. Those unmarried made up for 30.8 per cent of the total such deaths. Alarmingly, one suicide out of every five is committed by a housewife.
Intriguingly, unemployment resulted in only 7.5 per cent of the suicide victims. On the contrary, 41.1 per of victims were self employed. The statistics have been released by the National Crime Records Bureau in its latest report released on Thursday.
“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,“ said the report.
As many as 1,34,599 persons committed suicide in 2010 and nearly 70.5 per cent of the victims were married males while 67 per cent were married females, according to the NCRB report 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 ‘ill
ness’ (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 was 65:35. However, the proportion of boys, girls suicide victims (up to 14 years of age)
was 52:48.
In all, 26.3 per cent of the suicide victims were primary educated and 22.7 per cent were middle educated while 19.8 per cent of victims of suicide were illiterate, the statistics showed.
Government servants comprised just 1.4 per cent of the
total suicide victims. West Bengal (11.9 per cent), Andhra Pradesh (11.8 per cent), Tamil Nadu (12.3 per cent), Maharashtra (11.8 per cent) and Karnataka (9.4 per cent) contributed 57.2 per cent of total suicide victims.
West Bengal has reported the highest number of suicide victims (accounting for 11.9 per cent) in 2008 and 2009 and second highest in 2010 (accounting for 11.9 per cent). Southern States Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala and Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra have accounted for 51.7 per cent of total suicides reported in the country.
Sikkim and Puducherry had reported 45.9 and 45.5 suicidal deaths per one lakh of population as against the
national average of 11.4.
Besides, more than 55.9 per cent children suicide victims belonged to five States — Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu-out of 3,130 suicide victims.
Sikkim reported the highest rate of suicide (45.9) followed by Puducherry (45.5), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (36.1), Kerala (24.6) and Chhattisgarh (26.6).
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 14300 in 2009 to 15,916 in 2010).
The highest number of mass/family suicide cases were reported from Bihar (23) followed by Kerala (22) and Madhya Pradesh (21) and Andhra Pradesh (20) out of 109 cases.
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. Jabalpur has reported the highest rate of 41.5 and Kolkata reported the lowest rate at 2.1 only deaths among 35 cities.
Meanwhile, 3,84,649 accidental deaths were reported in 2010, an increase of over 7.7 per cent over 2009.
Maharashtra accounting for 9.3 per cent of country’s population has reported almost one sixth (16.7 per cent) of accidental deaths.
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