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The State accounted for six.2% of the entire suicides reported throughout the nation. In 2022, Telangana had reported 9,980 deaths by suicide, or 5.8% of the nationwide whole. The NCRB, chargeable for compiling and tabulating information from all States, launched this yr’s figures after a substantial delay.
In phrases of absolute numbers, Telangana ranked sixth for the best variety of suicides, behind Maharashtra (22,687), Tamil Nadu (19,483), Madhya Pradesh (15,662), Karnataka (13,330) and Kerala (10,972). Nationally, 1,71,418 suicides had been reported in 2023.
Telangana’s suicide price stood at 27.7 per one lakh inhabitants in 2023, rating fifth among the many nation’s bigger States. This marks a rise from 26.3 in 2022 and stays nicely above the nationwide common of 12.3 per lakh. Among bigger States, solely Kerala recorded the next price at 30.6. Over the previous decade, the nationwide suicide price has risen from 11.1 in 2013 to 12.3 in 2023.
Family issues had been cited because the predominant set off for suicides in Telangana, claiming 4,680 lives, or 44.2% of the State’s whole circumstances — a proportion larger than the nationwide common of 31.9%.
Poison emerged as the most typical technique of suicide in Telangana, accounting for five,192 deaths, adopted by hanging, which claimed 3,931 lives. Incidentally, 39 individuals died attributable to unintentional ingestion of poison.
By occupation, day by day wage earners constituted the most important group with 4,835 circumstances (27.5%), adopted by the self-employed with 1,705 circumstances. Agricultural labourers numbered 564, whereas 582 college students died by suicide. The State additionally recorded 4 circumstances of mass or household suicides in 2023, involving a complete of 11 people.
Published – October 01, 2025 12:36 am IST
