India - Intentional self-harm

In 2004 occurred 197,257 suicides in India. This year, 970 more people committed suicide than in 2003. In 2004, on average 540 Indians committed suicide every day.

India had 17.46 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 10.53 suicides per 100,000 people.

India is a country with a high rate of suicide.

Of the 197,257 recorded suicide cases in 2004, 107,333 were men suicides and 89,925 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 18.25 per 100,000 men and for women 16.4 per 100,000 female. In spite of this, it is one of the countries with the highest female suicide rate in the world.

Statistics show that in 2014, suicides were the main cause of unnatural death in the world. In India suicide also is one of the leading causes of unnatural death. By comparison, there were 46,490 homicides in India, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 4.2 suicides.

Related data:

• Homicides in India
• India economy
• Country suicides ranking