Number Of Suicides Increased In 2021 To Highest Levels Seen In Four Years, Research Suggests

USA Today (2/9, Hassanein) reports, “Suicide rates increased and disparities widened in 2021, returning to pre-pandemic rates after two years of decline, a federal analysis” concluded.

ABC News (2/9, Kekatos) reports, “The number of suicides increased in 2021 to the highest levels seen in four years, according to” findings published Feb. 10 in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The CDC’s report examined “how many people died by suicide between 2018 and 2021 as well as breaking down the chart by race and ethnicity.” Researchers found that “48,183 Americans died by suicide in 2021 with a rate of 14.1 suicides per 100,000 people,” which “are the highest numbers recorded since 2018 when 48,344 Americans died by suicide with a rate of 14.2 per 100,000, and comes after two consecutive years of decreases in 2019 and 2020.”

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— “Suicide rates increase after 2 years of decline, with disparities widening “Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, February 9, 2023

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