As many as 7,223 Nepali people committed suicide in the fiscal year (FY) 2080/2081 in Nepal.
This statistics were unveiled during a program organized to mark the World Suicide Prevention Day in Kathmandu on Sunday.
Unveiling the data of suicide, Dr. Yadu Chandra Ghimire, the director at the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division, said 7, 223 people committed suicide in the fiscal year 2080/2081, which comes around 20 cases a day.
Even though the Epidemiology set a target to bring down the suicide rate to 4.7 this fiscal, it went up against the target. According to the recent data, the suicide rate among adults in Nepal is put at 6.5% and 3.9% among teenagers.
The first cause of deaths among the people aged 15 to 45 is the suicide the study has shown. According to Ghimire, biological, mental illness, physiological, psychological, psychosocial are among many reasons leading to the suicide of people.
Similarly, social, cultural and economic factors are the other reasons behind the suicidal cases. Suicide comes to be the 15th cause of deaths of people, according to Ghimire.
Dr. Ghimire further said, “Around 700,000 people commit suicide a year globally, and one every 40 seconds. Around 77% percent of suicide cases are found to have taken place in low-and-middle-income countries, with 39 percent in South East Asia, a study shows.”
The World Suicide Prevention Day is being observed with the slogan, “Let's Open Dialogue and Shift Perspective on Suicide.”
