Table | Suicide deaths per 100,000 people, by Race / Ethnicity | State Health Access Data Assistance Center

Suicide deaths per 100,000 people

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2018 to 2023
Timeframe (Select 1)
1999 to 2020

Data Type Rate per 100,000 Margin of Error

Race / Ethnicity (Select multiple)

Notes

N/A indicates that data are suppressed because the rate is based on 20 or fewer deaths.

Due to limitations of accessing data for sub-populations through the CDC WONDER Database (e.g., suppression of estimates based on small numbers of deaths, ability to combine multiple categories), the race/ethnicity categories for suicide deaths (White [Non-Hispanic], Hispanic/Latino [Any Race], and the combined category "Black/Asian/American Indian/Multiple Races [Non-Hispanic]") differ from categories used for other State Health Compare measures. That approach may mask substantial state-level variation in suicide rates by race/ethnicity that are found at the U.S. level (e.g., suicide rates for American Indians are much higher than rates for Blacks and Asians): https://www.shadac.org/2019SuicideBriefs

In 2021, CDC transitioned from using "bridged-race" population estimates based on the race and ethnicity categories specified in the 1977 OMB Race and Ethnic Standards for Federal Statistics and Administrative Reporting to using "single-race" population estimates based on the race and Hispanic ethnicity categories specified in the 1997 OMB standards for the collection of data on race and ethnicity. Statistics based on the single-race population estimates are only made available via CDC WONDER for data years 2018 forward, and statistics based on bridged-race population estimates are only available through data year 2020. Data users should not make comparisons between statistics based on bridged-race population estimates and statistics based on single-race population estimates. Further, because of changes made in 2020 to how the U.S. Census Bureau measures race and ethnicity, caution should be used when comparing statistics by race and ethnicity from 2020 and later to data from 2019 and earlier.

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Suicide deaths per 100,000 people

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