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In 2002, 154,000 suicides were recorded in India. In the United States, about 60 percent of suicides are carried out with a gun. In states with stricter gun laws, gun suicide rates decreased over these past two decades. In these states with these stronger gun laws the rates of gun suicide among ages 10–24 was lower in 2022 than in 1999.
The highest rates of suicide amongst enslaved people brought to Thirteen Colonies and United States appeared to have occurred during and immediately after the Middle Passage. [6] The proximate psychological cause of these suicides was the "trauma of captivity" leading to either " anxiety and self-mutilation or depression and stupor."
Slave suicide in the United States before the American Civil War has been seen as a social protest. Some slaves were portrayed by abolitionist writers, such as William Lloyd Garrison, as those that ended their lives in response to the hypocrisy of the American Constitution. Abolitionists have had differing views on slave suicide.
Titled, “Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America,” the report described an “alarming” increase in the suicide rates for Black children and teenagers within the previous generation. The trend was notable to Lindsey and the other researchers given historical data showing lower rates of suicide among Black Americans ...
Suicide rates vary for different ethnic groups. In 1998, suicides among European Americans accounted for 84% of all youth suicides, 61% male and 23% female. The suicide rate for Native Americans was 19.3 per 100,000, much higher than the overall rate of 8.5 per 100,000. The suicide rate for African Americans has
The latter research found that 3 out of every 5 youths (between ages 10 and 24) who died by suicide in the United States had never received a diagnosis of a mental health disorder such as depression.
The Hispanic suicide rate has risen significantly in the last decade, and mental health experts cite factors like poverty, language barriers and a lack of bilingual mental health professionals.
Every year, about one million people die by suicide, which is a mortality rate of sixteen per 100,000 or one death every forty seconds. [2] Suicidologists believe that suicide is largely preventable with the right actions, knowledge about suicide, and a change in society's view of suicide to make it more acceptable to talk about suicide.