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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).
Suicide rates went down for both younger men and women, but rose for older age groups. There were nearly four times as many suicides for men as women. CDC report reveals suicide rates have ...
Within countries there is variety as well. As of 2021, Wyoming is the leading state in annual suicide with 32.3 deaths per 100,000 people. On the other hand, New Jersey, has the lowest suicide rate with 7.1 deaths per 100,000 people. [11] Rural and Urban suicide rates differ as well. [12]
Suicide rates rose in nearly every state from 1999 to 2016, with the rate spiking by more than 30 percent in half of the country, the CDC said Thursday.
Data released Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that after a two-year decline in the number of suicides in the United States, those deaths went back up in 2021 and ...
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Despite evolving strategies, from 2001 through 2021 suicide rates increased most years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Decades of national suicide prevention policies ...
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 ...