Citation

Mayer P, Ziaian T. Crisis 2002; 23(3): 98-103.

Affiliation

Politics Department, Adelaide University, SA, Australia. peter.mayer@adelaide.edu.au

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Publisher Hogrefe Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

12542106

Abstract

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.

Language: en