About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever. That's according to new government data posted Thursday.
  • Valdair@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Looks like it is basically not changed. I downloaded the data and compared it against US population census data from https://population.un.org/wpp/

    Year 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 (forecasted)
    Suicides 4.834x10^4 4.751x10^4 4.598x10^4 4.818x10^4 4.945x10^4 5.029x10^4
    Population 3.321x10^8 3.343x10^8 3.359x10^8 3.370x10^8 3.383x10^8 3.400x10^8
    Rate per 100k 14.6 14.2 13.7 14.3 14.6 14.8

    If anything it dipped during the pandemic and is returning to “normal” (although I can’t see before 2018).