Suicide in Bangladesh

[2] According to a report by Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, Dhaka, published in 2010, around 6,500,000 people of Bangladesh are prone to suicide.

[4] According to a 2010 report by Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, of the 128.08 per 100,000 people who died by suicide in 2010, 89% were women and most of them were unmarried.

[3] Statistics from Jatiya Mahila Ainjibi Samity, a Bangladeshi women's organization, show that from 2006 to 2010, 40 girls who died by suicide were victims of stalking.

[6][7] According to the diaries recovered from their home, they wanted a pure life as lived by Adam and Eve, freeing themselves from bondage to any religion.

In urban areas, people follow other methods to die by suicide, such as by an overdose of barbiturate tablets, or by other means.