Year: 2024 Source: Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. (2024). https://dx.doi.org/10.15620/cdc/160504 SIEC No: 20242175
In 2022, suicide was the 11th leading cause of death for all ages in the United States, the same as in 2021 (1). Suicide was the second leading cause of death for people ages 10–14 and 20–34, and the third leading cause for people ages 15–19 (1). Following a peak in overall suicide rates in 2018, rates declined through 2020 (2), but provisional death data showed that suicide increased through 2022 (3). This report presents final suicide rates from 2002 through 2022 by sex, age, and means of suicide, using mortality data from the National Vital Statistics System.