HealthDay (11/16, Reinberg) reports research indicates that “suicide rates dipped slightly among white Americans while they rose for Black and Hispanic Americans.” While “suicide rates for white people increased from 2000 to 2018, but then dropped from 18 per 100,000 people to 17 per 100,000 in 2020,” investigators found that “among Black and Hispanic people, the suicide rate continued to increase to nearly 8 per 100,000.” The findings were published online Nov. 16 in the CDC’s NCHS Data Brief No. 450.
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— “Suicide Rates Declining for White Americans, But Not for Minorities ” Steven Reinberg, HealthDay, November 16, 2022