किसान आत्महत्या · क़र्ज़ और संकट
Farmer suicides — debt and distress
What the official record says about farmer suicides — by state and year, and how many were recorded against debt and farming troubles. Government figures from the Agriculture Ministry's answers in Parliament, shown as published.
36 States/UTs · 2016–2021 · causes for 2015Source: Agriculture Ministry · Rajya SabhaData updated · Tap water, PM-KISAN and farmer suicides · by furquan
किसान
Farmers & cultivators · 2021
5,318
Down from 6,270 in 2016
छह साल में
Total, 2016–2021
34,842
Farmers and cultivators, all states & UTs
क़र्ज़
Recorded against debt · 2015
26.6%
3,352 of 12,602 farmers & agricultural labourers
फ़सल का क़र्ज़
Crop loans · 2014
83.0%
965 of 1,163 debt-related deaths
State by state राज्यवार
Farmers who died by suicide, 2021 — click a state
measure
year
Farmers and cultivators. These are counts, not rates — a state with more farmers will show more deaths. Official figures are as recorded and may be incomplete.
Farmers who died by suicide, 202101153 No data
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Maharashtra
Farmers & cultivators, year by year
| 16 | 2550 |
|---|---|
| 17 | 2426 |
| 18 | 2239 |
| 19 | 2680 |
| 20 | 2567 |
| 21 | 2640 |
2015 · recorded causes (farmers & agricultural labourers)
Ranking
What the record says — 2015 कारण
All India · farmers and agricultural labourers together (12,602 deaths) · the only year with a state-wise cause table
Causes are the categories used by the recording authority, shown as published. “Farming-related issues” is that category’s own name.
Debt, by loan and lender क़र्ज़ का रूप
Farmers and agricultural labourers whose deaths were recorded against bankruptcy or indebtedness
2014 · by kind of loan · 1,163
2015 · by lender · 3,097
For 2015 the Ministry’s two tables give different debt totals (3,097 by lender, 3,352 in the cause table). Each is shown exactly as published; we have not reconciled them.
All states & UTs तालिका
Farmers and cultivators by year, plus 2015 debt-related deaths · “—” where no figure is published · click a column to sort
| Maharashtra | 2,550 | 2,426 | 2,239 | 2,680 | 2,567 | 2,640 | 15,102 | 1,422 |
| Karnataka | 1,212 | 1,157 | 1,365 | 1,331 | 1,072 | 1,170 | 7,307 | 1,022 |
| Andhra Pradesh | 239 | 375 | 365 | 628 | 564 | 481 | 2,652 | 173 |
| Telangana | 632 | 846 | 900 | 491 | 466 | 352 | 3,687 | 642 |
| Punjab | 232 | 243 | 229 | 239 | 174 | 171 | 1,288 | 52 |
| Assam | 6 | 3 | 5 | 26 | 12 | 153 | 205 | 0 |
| Madhya Pradesh | 599 | 429 | 303 | 142 | 235 | 117 | 1,825 | 13 |
| Chhattisgarh | 585 | 285 | 182 | 233 | 227 | 71 | 1,583 | 3 |
| Tamil Nadu | 36 | 19 | 6 | 6 | 79 | 61 | 207 | 0 |
| Kerala | 23 | 42 | 25 | 22 | 57 | 34 | 203 | 8 |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 34 | 0 |
| Haryana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Himachal Pradesh | 0 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 6 | 13 | 40 | 0 |
| Uttar Pradesh | 69 | 110 | 80 | 108 | 87 | 13 | 467 | 13 |
| Sikkim | 12 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 34 | 0 |
| Meghalaya | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| Andaman & Nicobar | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 22 | 0 |
| Jammu & Kashmir | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| Nagaland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Arunachal Pradesh | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Bihar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chandigarh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Delhi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Goa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gujarat | 30 | 4 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 63 | 1 |
| Jharkhand | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| Ladakh | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
| Lakshadweep | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Manipur | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Mizoram | 0 | 0 | 17 | 22 | 4 | 0 | 43 | 0 |
| Odisha | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 2 |
| Puducherry | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Rajasthan | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 |
| Tripura | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Uttarakhand | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| West Bengal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
36 rows · click a column to sort
Source · स्रोत
- State/UTs-wise Number of Farmers who Committed Suicides from 2016 to 2020 — Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, answers in the Rajya Sabha — via Open Government Data Platform India
- State/UT-wise Suicides by Farmers from 2017-2021 — Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, answers in the Rajya Sabha — via Open Government Data Platform India
- Cause-wise and State/UT-wise Farmers/Agricultural Labourers Suicides during 2015 (From: Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare) — Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, answers in the Rajya Sabha — via Open Government Data Platform India
- State/UT-wise Suicides by Farmers and Agricultural Labourers due to Bankruptcy or Indebtedness during 2014 and 2015 (From : Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare) — Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, answers in the Rajya Sabha — via Open Government Data Platform India