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Friday, September 5, 2014

India Is On Top In Suicides Globally








World Health Organisation (WHO) published a report in which India has been declared top with having highest number of suicides globally in 2012. One most noticeable thing in the report was found that one person commits suicide every 40 seconds globally. In the WHO South -East Asia region, the estimated suicide rate is the highest as compared to other WHO regions. It is 39 % of those in low and middle income countries, with India accounting for the highest estimated number of suicides overall in 2012. According to the report 258,075 people committed suicide in India during 2012, with 99,977 women and 158,098 men taking their own lives. The most suicide prune countries were Guayna (44.2 per cent per 100,000 ), followed by North and South Korea (38.5 and 28.9 respectively). Next came Sri Lanka (28.8), Lithuania (28.2), Suriname ( 27.8), Mozambique (27.4), Nepal and Tanzania (24.9)), Brundi (23.1) and South Sudan (19.8). It can observed that Muslim countries have the least or none of this type of deaths. Because suicide is Haram in Islam.

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