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A modelled estimate, not a count. WHO models country rates where civil registration is incomplete, and India's is; NCRB publishes India's own recorded suicide figures and they differ substantially from these. This site carries the WHO series because it is comparable across countries and across years, and grades it low confidence because the two sources disagree and neither can settle the other. It is a measure of deaths, not of how common mental illness is — a different question, declared separately and still unfilled. Compare it against the crude rate: where they diverge, the gap is India's changing age structure rather than a change in risk.

A modelled estimate, not a count. WHO models country rates where civil registration is incomplete, and India's is; NCRB publishes India's own recorded suicide figures and they differ substantially from these. This site carries the WHO series because it is comparable across countries and across years, and grades it low confidence because the two sources disagree and neither can settle the other. It is a measure of deaths, not of how common mental illness is — a different question, declared separately and still unfilled. Compare it against the crude rate: where they diverge, the gap is India's changing age structure rather than a change in risk.

A modelled estimate, not a count. WHO models country rates where civil registration is incomplete, and India's is; NCRB publishes India's own recorded suicide figures and they differ substantially from these. This site carries the WHO series because it is comparable across countries and across years, and grades it low confidence because the two sources disagree and neither can settle the other. It is a measure of deaths, not of how common mental illness is — a different question, declared separately and still unfilled. Compare it against the crude rate: where they diverge, the gap is India's changing age structure rather than a change in risk.

A modelled estimate, not a count. WHO models country rates where civil registration is incomplete, and India's is; NCRB publishes India's own recorded suicide figures and they differ substantially from these. This site carries the WHO series because it is comparable across countries and across years, and grades it low confidence because the two sources disagree and neither can settle the other. It is a measure of deaths, not of how common mental illness is — a different question, declared separately and still unfilled. Compare it against the crude rate: where they diverge, the gap is India's changing age structure rather than a change in risk.

Service areas are not states. Some cover two states, some split one, and Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are their own areas — so this is labelled by service area and is deliberately not drawn on the state map, which would assert a correspondence that does not exist. One TRAI report covers one quarter, so this is a snapshot rather than a series over time. The half of the gap that matters: rural tele-density runs far below urban in every service area, and the national figure hides the distance between them.

Service areas are not states. Some cover two states, some split one, and Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are their own areas — so this is labelled by service area and is deliberately not drawn on the state map, which would assert a correspondence that does not exist. One TRAI report covers one quarter, so this is a snapshot rather than a series over time. The half of the gap that matters: rural tele-density runs far below urban in every service area, and the national figure hides the distance between them.

Service areas are not states. Some cover two states, some split one, and Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are their own areas — so this is labelled by service area and is deliberately not drawn on the state map, which would assert a correspondence that does not exist. One TRAI report covers one quarter, so this is a snapshot rather than a series over time. Above 100 everywhere, and above 190 in some areas. Read as SIMs per hundred residents, not as people connected.

Service areas are not states. Some cover two states, some split one, and Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are their own areas — so this is labelled by service area and is deliberately not drawn on the state map, which would assert a correspondence that does not exist. One TRAI report covers one quarter, so this is a snapshot rather than a series over time. Above 100 everywhere, and above 190 in some areas. Read as SIMs per hundred residents, not as people connected.

Service areas are not states. Some cover two states, some split one, and Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are their own areas — so this is labelled by service area and is deliberately not drawn on the state map, which would assert a correspondence that does not exist. One TRAI report covers one quarter, so this is a snapshot rather than a series over time. Tele-density counts connections, not people, so it exceeds 100 per cent wherever people hold more than one SIM — which in urban areas is most of them.

Service areas are not states. Some cover two states, some split one, and Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are their own areas — so this is labelled by service area and is deliberately not drawn on the state map, which would assert a correspondence that does not exist. One TRAI report covers one quarter, so this is a snapshot rather than a series over time. Tele-density counts connections, not people, so it exceeds 100 per cent wherever people hold more than one SIM — which in urban areas is most of them.

Service areas are not states. Some cover two states, some split one, and Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are their own areas — so this is labelled by service area and is deliberately not drawn on the state map, which would assert a correspondence that does not exist. One TRAI report covers one quarter, so this is a snapshot rather than a series over time. Connections rather than people, and undirected on purpose: more SIMs in a service area is not straightforwardly better.

Service areas are not states. Some cover two states, some split one, and Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata are their own areas — so this is labelled by service area and is deliberately not drawn on the state map, which would assert a correspondence that does not exist. One TRAI report covers one quarter, so this is a snapshot rather than a series over time. Connections rather than people, and undirected on purpose: more SIMs in a service area is not straightforwardly better.