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Since most military personnel are male and suicide is a rare event, it is not usually possible to calculate a statistically significant rate among female personnel. The large military of the US is an exception, where the suicide rate among serving female personnel in 2020 was 12 per 100,000. [15]
On World Mental Health Day, the Department of Defense released data showing an alarming rise in suicides in the military.
A 2009 U.S. Army report indicates military veterans have double the suicide rate of non-veterans, and more active-duty soldiers are dying from suicide than in combat in the Iraq War (2003–2011) and War in Afghanistan (2001–2021). [3]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:2024 deaths. It includes 2024 deaths that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. People who died by suicide and events and topics involving suicide(s) in the year 2024 .
Roughly 500 active-duty service members and around 6,000 veterans die by suicide each year. These statistics hadn’t really changed in almost 20 years, until 2019 and 2020, when suicide among ...
Suicide rates in the military increased in 2023, a slight uptick from 2022 that adds to a larger, troubling rise over the past decade. The annual report shows 523 service members died by suicide ...
United States military veteran suicide [1] [2] is an ongoing phenomenon regarding the high rate of suicide among U.S. military veterans in comparison to the general civilian public. [3] A focus on preventing veteran suicide began in 1958 with the opening of the first suicide prevention center in the United States.
U.S. suicide rates increased the most among adults over 75 and younger white women.