In 2021 the U.S. suicide rate increased more than in any year in the previous 2 decades, a new analysis from the CDC shows.
April 13, 2023 – During the first full year of the pandemic, the U.S. suicide rate increased more than in any year in the previous 2 decades, aThe rate of suicide in 2021 was 14.1 per 100,000 people, which was a 4.1% increase over the 2020 suicide rate. After looking back to 2001, when the national suicide rate was 10.7 per 100,000, CDC researchers saw there hadn’t previously been such a large single-year increase.
There was no significant increase in suicide among females between 2020 and 2021, except for women ages 75 and older, the researchers found. The CDC researchers noted that the overall increase in suicides in 2021 reversed a steady decline in the suicide rate stretching back to 2018. It’s not possible to point to a single part of the pandemic as the cause, a CDC expert said.
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