Suicide in India is a national social issue. In the year 2015, India recorded 133,623 suicides, an increase of 1.4% from 2014’s 131,666 suicides. This is a list of States and Union Territories of India ranked according to suicide rate as on 2015. The rate is calculated as number of suicides per 1 lakh (100,000) people. The list is compiled from the 2015 Suicidal Deaths in India report published by National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Government of India
Top three States with highest suicide rates are Puducherry, Sikkim and Andaman and Nicobar Islands respectively, while Bihar recorded lowest suicide rates.
| Rank | State | Suicide Rate (per 1 lakh) 2015 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sikkim | 37.5 |
| 2 | Chhattisgarh | 27.7 |
| 2 | Telangana | 27.7 |
| 4 | Tamil Nadu | 22.8 |
| 5 | Kerala | 21.6 |
| 6 | Tripura | 19.6 |
| 7 | Karnataka | 17.4 |
| 8 | West Bengal | 15.7 |
| 9 | Goa | 15.4 |
| 10 | Maharashtra | 14.2 |
| 11 | Madhya Pradesh | 13.3 |
| 12 | Haryana | 13.0 |
| 13 | Andhra Pradesh | 12.1 |
| 14 | Mizoram | 11.7 |
| 15 | Gujarat | 11.6 |
| 16 | Arunachal Pradesh | 10.4 |
| 17 | Assam | 10.0 |
| 18 | Odisha | 9.7 |
| 19 | Himachal Pradesh | 7.7 |
| 20 | Meghalaya | 6.2 |
| 21 | Rajasthan | 4.8 |
| 22 | Uttarakhand | 4.5 |
| 23 | Punjab | 3.6 |
| UT8 | Jammu and Kashmir | 3.0 |
| 24 | Jharkhand | 2.5 |
| 25 | Uttar Pradesh | 2.0 |
| 26 | Manipur | 1.4 |
| 27 | Nagaland | 0.9 |
| 28 | Bihar | 0.5 |
| UT1 | Puducherry | 43.2 |
| UT2 | Andaman and Nicobar Islands | 28.9 |
| UT3 | Dadra and Nagar Haveli | 25.4 |
| UT4 | Daman and Diu | 11.8 |
| UT5 | Delhi | 8.8 |
| UT6 | Chandigarh | 6.9 |
| UT7 | Lakshwadeep | 6.3 |
| UT9 | Ladakh | 3.0 |