Suicide, Gender, and Age Variations in India
- 1 May 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hogrefe Publishing Group in Crisis
- Vol. 23 (3) , 98-103
- https://doi.org/10.1027//0227-5910.23.3.98
Abstract
Summary: A new set of data concerning the pattern of suicide in India between 1991-1997 are presented. Suicide rates rose over this period despite a small decline in the Indian suicide rate in 1995 and 1996. It was found that between 1995 and 1997 there was a modest fall in the suicide rates among under 29-year-olds of both sexes, and an increase among those 30 years and older. The pattern of suicides in India is bimodal: the incidence of suicides is highest for those in the 30-44-year-old category of both sexes and tends to decline in higher age categories. Suicide rates were nearly equal for young women and men, a contrast with the pattern of suicide sex ratios in eight developed countries.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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