The levels of stress, anxiety, worry, sadness, and anger among young women may be far higher than their male counterparts, but young men are taking their lives more than women in Kerala. Data tabled at the Assembly reveal that 6,244 men in the age category of 18-30 committed suicide between 2018 and 2023 (up to August), whereas the number is 2,471 among women during this period.
A notable thing in the data is that the tendency to commit suicide is increasing in men every year while the number is slightly decreasing in women. When 984 men committed suicide in 2018, the number shot up to 1,244 in 2022. A total of 448 women committed suicide in 2018 while the number dropped to 431 in 2022.
