In 2008 around 209,038 suicides occurred in India, 1,674 more than in 2007. In 2008, on average 573 Indians committed suicide every day.
India reported 17.41 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants, well above the world average of 9.96 suicides per 100,000 people.
India is a country with a high rate of suicide.
Of the 209,038 recorded suicide cases in 2008, 112,874 were men suicides and 96,164 were women. So that, the suicide rate among males were 18.08 per 100,000 men and for women 16.51 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 45,999 homicides in India, the number of suicides far outnumber homicides. For every homicide there were 4.5 suicides.
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