Student suicides in India at a five-year high, majority from Maharashtra: NCRB data
Maharashtra, Madya Pradesh and Tamil Nadu report highest student deaths by suicide in 2021.
There were at least 64 suicide attempts at Ware in 2019 and 2020, a rate higher than at any other juvenile facility in the state. (Representative image) The number of deaths by suicide by students saw an increase of 4.5 per cent in 2021, the latest data from the National Crime Records Bureau show. Maharashtra had the highest student deaths by suicide in 2021 with 1,834 deaths, followed by Madhya Pradesh with 1,308, and Tamil Nadu with 1,246 deaths.
The NCRB’s Accidental Deaths and Suicide in India (ADSI) report 2021 shows student suicides had gone up drastically during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020 and 2021 and have been steadily rising in the last five years.
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In 2020, as many as 12,526 students died by suicide, while in 2021 the number rose to 13,089. Between 2017 and 2019, student suicides made up 7.40 per cent to 7.60 per cent of the total suicides in the country. This increased to 8.20 per cent in 2020 and reduced only marginally to 8 per cent in 2021.
Graphics by Abhishek Mitra
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