Chapter 1: Introduction to the project

This project focuses on deriving powerful insights from the suicidal data of India during the years 2016-2020.At the end of this project report we will be able to know about :

Data Sources Of the Project

The datasets used for this project are taken from National Crime Bureau India.

NCRBhttps:/h/ncrb.gov.in/en/accidental-deaths-suicides-in-india

What is Suicide?

The Government of India classifies a death as suicide if it meets the following three criteria:

  • It is an unnatural death,
  • The intent to die originated within the person,
  • There is a reason for the person to end his or her life. The reason may have been specified in a suicide note or unspecified. If one of these criteria is not met, the death may be classified as death because of illness, murder or in another statistical.
  • Each suicide is a personal tragedy that prematurely takes the life of an individual and has a continuing ripple effect, affecting the lives of families, friends and communities. Every year, more than 1,00,000 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. NCRB collects data on suicides from police recorded suicide cases.

Case Study : Suicidal deaths in India

This case study was visualized to analyse the trend and patterns with the help of Tableau public. It can be viewed here : Suicides in India : Case Study

Allover trend during the years 2017-2021

The following map shows the states of India , color coded from darker to lighter to represent higher and lower number of deaths due to suicide, respectively, taking average of the years(2017-2021).

Having a look at cause-wise data , the cause that caused the most suicide cases through all the years was “Family problems”.

The 2nd most suicide deaths are due to illness, which includes all kinds of physical and mental illness issues.

The third category that had the largest number of suicide deaths was “causes not known”. NCRB says that these are the cases in which either the reason of the victim attempting suicide is completely unknown or there family/friends don’t disclose it.

The year-wise analysis :

In 2017 , the states had the following count of deaths in total :

In 2018 , the scenario was like the following graph shows :

2019, was not better than the previous two years :

2020, had the following stats :

The year 2021 , brought a rise in suicide cases in some states and decreased number of deaths in other states :

164,033 Indians committed suicide in 2021 and the national suicide rate was 12 (calculated per hundred thousand),which is the highest rate of deaths from suicides since 1967, which is the earliest recorded year for this data. According to The World Health Organization, in India, suicide is an emerging and serious public health issue. Suicide rates in India have been rising over the past five decades.Suicides during 2021 increased by 7.2% in comparison to 2020 with India reporting highest number of suicides in the world.India’s contribution to global suicide deaths increased from 25.3% in 1990 to 36.6% in 2016 among women, and from 18.7% to 24.3% among men.In 2016, suicide was the most common cause of death in both the age groups of 15–29 years and 15–39 years. Between 1987 and 2007, the suicide rate increased from 7.9 to 10.3 per 100,000.

Conclusions :

There are so many overrated reasons that are considered during many suicide cases, but the data says the real story. NCRB doesn’t even get to record all the suicide attempts and deaths, as many victims do not declare the cause of them attempting this crime to themselves and many cases are over shadowed by victim’s own family and friends.

The following conclusions are the mains that can be drawn from this case study:

  • People are really struggling with “Family problems” , and many lives can be saved by doing counselling and helping people build good and peaceful relations with there family.

  • “Illness” is a overall big factor which causes people to make drastic decisions and a good health care system may help in decrease of suicide rates.

  • People are generally shy or “embarrassed” about asking for help, which is the biggest issue in today’s scenarios ,where we already have very few people around us to help.