Suicide Worldwide In 2019
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Approach “Suicide Worldwide In 2019” : Prelims
- What is it?
- About the report
Why in News ?
The report titled Suicide worldwide in 2019 was published June 17, 2021.
- It shows that some 703,000 people or one in a 100, died by suicide in 2019.
- This is published by World Health Organisation
Key Facts
- Go hand-in-hand with foundational pillars like situation analysis, multi-sectoral collaboration, awareness raising capacity building, financing, surveillance and monitoring and evaluation.
- Reducing the global suicide mortality rate by a third is both an indicator and a target in the United Nations-mandated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- World will not be able to reach this target if a new report by the WHO is to be believed.
About the Suicide Worldwide In 2019
- Many of the suicide person are young people.
- Half of global suicides (58 per cent) occurred before the age of 50 years.
Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash - Suicide was the fourth-leading cause of death among young people aged 15-29 globally in 2019.
- 77 per cent of global suicides in 2019 occurred in low- and middle-income countries.
- On an average, 9 out of every 100,000 people ended their lives in the world.
- WHO regions Africa, Europe and South-East Asia recorded suicide rates higher than the global average.
- This number was highest in the WHO Africa region (11.2) followed by Europe (10.5) and South-East Asia (10.2).
- In 20 years (2000-2019), the global suicide rate had decreased by 36 per cent.
- The decrease ranged from 17 per cent in the Eastern Mediterranean Region to 47 per cent in the European Region and 49 per cent in the Western Pacific Region.
- The world will not be able to achieve the SDGs concerning mental health.
- What need to be done to reduce suicide rate ?
- Strengthen the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, including narcotic drug abuse and harmful use of alcohol.
- Universal health coverage which mental health is part of.
- Suicide prevention high on their agendas.
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