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NCRB report on suicides 2023
October 4 , 2025
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- The 2023 National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report shows a 3.2 percent rise in suicides due to illnesses, increasing from 31,484 in 2022 to 32,503 in 2023.
- Illness was the second leading cause of suicide in India in 2023.
- It is accounting for 19 percent of total suicides, after family problems which accounted for 32 percent.
- Suicides due to mental illness were highest under the illness category at 13,978 cases.
- Suicides due to cancer rose by 14 percent from 1,251 in 2022 to 1,428 in 2023.
- Tamil Nadu reported the highest number of suicides due to illness at 21 percent of the national total.
- It is followed by Maharashtra at 12 percent and Karnataka at 10 percent.
- A 10 percent rise in heart attack-related sudden deaths was recorded in 2023, increasing from 32,457 in 2022 to 35,715 in 2023.
- Total sudden deaths rose by 13 percent from 56,450 in 2022 to 63,643 in 2023, with the highest burden among the 45–60 age group (34 percent).
- Deaths due to abortion increased by 59 percent, rising from 80 in 2022 to 127 in 2023, within a total of 1,131 pregnancy-related deaths.
- Deaths of women during pregnancy increased by 5.4 percent from 1,073 in 2022 to 1,131 in 2023, as reported by the NCRB.
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