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Increase in suicide mortality in the United States, 1999–2018
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April 2020
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Description:Data from the National Vital Statistics System, Mortality
• From 1999 through 2018, the suicide rate increased 35%, from 10.5 per 100,000 to 14.2.
• The rate increased on average approximately 1% per year from 1999 to 2006 and by 2% per year from 2006 through 2018.
• In 2018, the suicide rate for males was 3.7 times the rate for females (22.8 and 6.2, respectively).
• From 1999 through 2018, suicide rates among females were highest for those aged 45–64; among males, the rates were highest for those aged 75 and over.
• In 2018, suicide rates were higher in the most rural counties compared with the most urban counties for both males and females.
Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death for all ages in the United States (1). Suicide is a major contributor to premature mortality as it ranks as the second leading cause of death for ages 10–34 and the fourth leading cause for ages 35–54 (1). Despite national goals to lower the suicide rate (2), several recent reports have documented a steady increase in suicide rates in recent years (3–6). This data brief uses final mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) to update trends in suicide rates from 1999 through 2018 and to describe differences by sex, age group, and urbanicity of county of residence.
Suggested citation: Hedegaard H, Curtin SC, Warner M. Increase in suicide mortality in the United States, 1999–2018. NCHS Data Brief, no 362. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2020.
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