New Delhi, Jan 12: In a shocking revelation, one unemployed person committed suicide every hour during 2018 when a total of 1,34,516 suicides, including 92,114 male and 42,391 female, were reported in the country, NCRB's "Suicide in India 2018" says.
The latest data, issued by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), which comes under Ministry of Home Affairs, last week reveals that a total of 12,936 unemployed persons committed suicide in 2018, which accounted for 9.6 per cent of the total suicides, and were of aged below 18 years to above 60 years.
Those below 18 years include 31 males and nine females while those between 18 and 30 years comprise 1,240 male and 180 female. A total of 868 male and 95 female were aged between 30 and 45 years. A number of 237 males and 21 females were aged between 45 and 60 years while 2,431 males and 310 females were above 60 years.
Of the total suicides by unemployed persons, males are 10,687 while the females are 2,249.
The highest number of suicides - 12.3 per cent - committed by unemployed persons were in Kerala (1,585 out of 12,936 suicides), 12.2 per cent in Tamil Nadu (1,579), 9.7 per cent in Maharashtra (1,260 suicides), 8.5 per cent in Karnataka (1,094 suicides) and 7 per cent in Uttar Pradesh (902 suicides).
"Each suicide is a personal tragedy that prematurely takes the life of an individual and has a continuing ripple effect, dramatically affecting the lives of families, friends and communities. Every year, more than 1 lakh people commit suicide in our country. There are various causes of suicides like professional/career problems, sense of isolation, abuse, violence, family problems, mental disorders, addiction to alcohol, financial loss, chronic pain etc," says the NCRB adding it collects data on suicides from police recorded suicide cases.
As per the NCRB, rate of suicides has been calculated using projected population for the non-census years whereas for 2011, the population of the Population Census 2011 was used.
The NCRB data says that a total of 1,34,516 suicides were reported in the country during 2018 showing an increase of 3.6 per cent in comparison to 2017 and the rate of suicides has increased by 0.3 during 2018 over 2017.
Government servants accounted for 1.3 per cent (1,707 out of 1,34,516) of the total suicide victims as compared to 6.1 per cent (8,246 out of 1,34,516) of total victims from Private Sector Enterprises.
Employees from Public Sector Undertakings formed 1.5 per cent (2,022 out of 1,34,516) of the total suicide victims, whereas students and unemployed victims accounted for 7.6 per (10,159 victims) of total suicides. Self-employed category accounted for 9.8 per cent of total suicide victims (13,149 out of 1,34,516).
A total of 10,349 persons involved in farming sector (consisting of 5,763 farmers and cultivators and 4,586 agricultural labourers) have committed suicide during 2018, accounting for 7.7 per cent of total suicides victims (1,34,516) in the country.
A total of 11 transgenders have committed suicide in which three were daily wage earners, one each were 'professionals and salaried persons' and 'unemployed persons' while six falls under 'Other Persons'.
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Now everything is clear to her to run with somebody, she did not given a right reason to kill her own son, life term imprisonment should be granted to this useless lady
wah wah we have seen lot of crime, murder and killings in congress ache din.
please guys try to give bjp 5 years to govern. you guys are expecting every thing to be perfect in two years of govt.
He is collecting tax on everything. In future this govt. will charge on air, Yoga tax, Cleaning Tax, Mann ki baat tax or environment tax.
Chaai waala sirf chaai bana saktha hain desh chalaane keliye dimaag chahiye jumlaa nahin.
Modi is unfit for PM. If he spends 5 percent of his travelling expenses on poor people. He can save millions of people.
Ache din has become the bad words for Indian. It has become the abuse word because of feku/Jumla prime minister.
Ab ki bhaar lag gayi yaar
After farmers death now people taking extreme steps, please solve this problem. we indian people dont need any govt, we all the people of india will take all the decision and make our life better.
modi sarkar should lower the price of rice,and other curry vegitables.
seriously all the citizen of the india fed up with price hike, i request modi govt to low down the prices of some daily used commodities as let poor people can buy for their living.
she nowhere mentioned about ache din or raising price, why this media targeting modi?
ache din, in coming days people will start to commit suicide because of this govt, our salary 80% goes to the govt as tax collection how poor family can survive with 20%.
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