The AP (9/26, Stobbe ) reports, “U.S. suicides last year remained at about the highest level in the nation’s history, preliminary data suggests.” A little more than “49,300 suicide deaths were reported in 2023, according to provisional data from the” CDC. Meanwhile, “just under 49,500 were reported in 2022, according to final data released” by the CDC on Thursday. The figures “are close enough that the suicide rate for the two years are the same, CDC officials said.”
The New York Times (9/26, Caron ) reports “women are increasingly using guns to die by suicide in the United States, challenging long-held assumptions that they will usually resort to less lethal means, according to” the CDC data. The findings “showed that in 2022, 20 out of every million women used a gun to die by suicide, up from 14 women in 2002,” marking a 43% increase. The data also show “that suicide rates have risen among women over the past two decades.”
USA Today (9/26, Cuevas ) reports the data show “firearms were used in more than half the country’s record 49,500 suicide deaths in 2022.”
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— “US suicides held steady in 2023 — at a very high level, “Mike Stobbe , AP , September 26, 2024