TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2022//
TI  - Suicide rates for the three leading methods by race and ethnicity: United States, 2000-2020
JO  - NCHS data brief
A1  - Curtin, Sally C.
A1  - Brown, Kamiah A.
A1  - Jordan, Mariah E.
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
VL  - 
IS  - 450
N2  - Suicide rates in the United States have traditionally been higher for non-Hispanic White than non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic people (1). However, provisional data demonstrated that patterns have changed recently with rates declining for non-Hispanic White people but increasing for non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic people (2). This report presents suicide rates from 2000 to 2020 using final data for non-Hispanic White, non-Hispanic Black, and Hispanic people, for the total population and for the three leading methods in 2020 (firearms, suffocation, and poisoning).     Key findings:    = After increasing between 2000 and 2018, age-adjusted suicide rates for non-Hispanic White people declined from 2018 (18.1 per 100,000 population) to 2020 (16.9), whereas rates increased between 2000 and 2020 for non-Hispanic Black (7.8) and Hispanic (7.5) people.     = Firearm suicide rates for non-Hispanic White people declined from 2018 to 2020, whereas rates for non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic people continued to increase.     = After increasing at a faster pace compared with Hispanic and non-Hispanic Black people through 2018, suffocation suicide rates declined for non-Hispanic White people through 2020.     = Poisoning suicide rates were stable over the period for non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic people (ranging from 0.6 to 0.8) but declined for non-Hispanic White people (from 2.6 to 2.1) since 2017.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1941-4935
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc:121798
ID  - ref1
ER  -