Big Data Technologies

Suicide Rates Overview (1985-2016)

GROUP – 01
Revanth T - 18080
Vishnu Menon – 18086
Darshan M Urs - 18181
 Introduction
• Every year, around 8,00,000 people are taking their own lives. That’s one person every 40 seconds
• Estimated annual mortality is 14·5 deaths per 1,00,000 people
• Globally, 1.4% of deaths were from suicide in 2017. i.e., 10 people per 1,00,000 died from suicide in 2017
• 75% of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries
• Tenth leading cause of death worldwide
• It is the second leading cause of death in 15-29 year-olds globally
• Each suicide is a tragedy which has a long-lasting effect on the people behind us and affects families,
societies and whole countries
 Data Overview
• The dataset is chosen from Kaggle, which compares socio-economic information with suicide rates
by year and country
• The data set has a total of 27,821 observations
• This dataset contains variables County, year, age, sex, Suicide no., population, HDI for year, GDP for
year/capita, and generation for year 1985-2016

Drawbacks and Challenges

 The data is periodic in nature from year 1985-2016 and is not updated afterwards.
 The data set does not cover all the countries across the world and is taken majorly from Canada, US,
Europe, Brazil, and Australia.
 There are few data which is missing in the data which can be a huge drawback in analysis and
understanding of the information.
 The data cannot be used for the further study as it concentrates only on few attributes and does not
cover all the reasons for suicides.
 Design and Approach

Tools Approach

• Tableau • Collection
• R Studio • Cleaning
• Excel
• Input
• Analysis and Output
• Interpretation and Insights
Suicide Rate World View
No of Suicide over different years (1985-2016)
Male vs Female Suicide Ratio
Suicide rates in different age groups
Comparison between GDP and Suicide rates
Median Suicide rates over different countries
Suicide rates with respect to different generation
Male and Female suicide rates in different countries
Ratio of Male and Female suicide over different years
Trends of Median Suicide rates with respect to different years
 Solution and Implementation
• The above data can be used for reporting by media in a responsible way to spread awareness.
• Reducing access to the means of suicide (e.g. Pesticides, firearms, certain medications).
• Based on the age segmentation government or other institutions can implement school-based
interventions.
• Introducing alcohol policies to reduce the harmful use of alcohol.
• Early identification, treatment and care of people with mental and substance use disorders, chronic
pain and acute emotional distress.
• Training of non-specialized health workers in the assessment and management of suicidal
behaviour.
• Follow-up care for people who attempted suicide and provision of community support