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1. The Lancet Public Health (LPH) has conducted a research on suicide rates in India.

Important facts

2. Research shows that almost 40% of women who commit suicide worldwide are from India.

3. Indian women who died by suicide were more likely to be married, to be from more developed states and, by a large margin, aged below 35.

4. The suicide rate has gone up from 25.3% in 1990 to 36.6% in 2016, which is highest in the world.

5. This public health crisis has gone unnoticed because of farmer suicides over the last two decades.

6. Reasons for Suicide

• Women from Nuclear family join the workplace and bear double burden of handling responsibilities at both workplace and domestic ends, leading to stress.
• Trend of early marriage, child marriage, early pregnancies, domestic violence,  deeply entrenched patriarchal culture cumulatively stress women at a young age
• Single women households bear the stress of facing the world without the support of family.
• Women have to continuously face new challenges in a rapidly changing society rather than traditional challenges of family.

7. The study is a joint initiative of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.