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Suicide is a major national public health issue in the United States. The country has one of the highest suicide rates among wealthy nations. [1] In 2020, there were 45,799 recorded suicides, [2] up from 42,773 in 2014, according to the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
Suicides by hanging in the United States by state (38 C) A. Suicides in Alabama (3 C, 5 P) Suicides in Alaska (3 C, 2 P) Suicides in Arizona (3 C, 14 P)
Global suicide rates per 100,000 people, 1978–2009. [20] In the list below various sources from various years are included, mixing plain crude rates with age-adjusted rates and estimated rates, so cross-national comparability is somewhat skewed. * indicates "Suicide in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Mental Health in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
“Suicide rates among persons aged 10–24 years increased significantly during 2018–2021 among Black persons (from 8.2 to 11.2; a 36.6% increase),” the report stated.
Wyoming, where a few hundred thousand residents are spread across sprawling, rugged landscape, consistently ranks among the states with the highest suicide rates. State officials have worked for ...
A 2017 study by the CDC with the help of Johns Hopkins University, Harvard, and Boston Children's Hospital revealed that suicide rates dropping in certain states has been linked to the legalization of same sex marriage in those same states. Suicide rates as a whole fell about 7% but the rates among specifically gay, lesbian, and bisexual ...
Pixabay/Public Domain. 6. Guyana. While it has registered a slight decrease from 2016, more than 26 people per 100,000 still commit suicide in the country.
[229] [232] [233] However, separating intentional suicide attempts from non-suicidal self-harm is not currently done in places like the United States when gathering statistics at the national level. [234] China has one of the highest female suicide rates in the world and is the only country where it is higher than that of men (ratio of 0.9).