Suicide rates per 100,000 people in India, a trend over time Total suicide rate is the average in that year for overall population per 100,000 Source: Gruère, G. & Sengupta, D. (2011), Bt cotton and farmer suicides in India: an evidence-based assessment, The Journal of Development Studies, 47(2), 316-337. For regional state-wise farmers suicides time trend data in India, see Guillaume P. Gruère, Purvi Mehta-Bhatt and Debdatta Sengupta, International Food Policy Research Institute, Paper 808, Washington DC