The suicide rate for all of the U.S. increased by 24% since 1999. Black men were the only race or gender to see a decrease in suicide.
Suicide rates in the U.S. have increased by 24% since 1999, with white and Native American women seeing the biggest increase, a new study from the U.S. Department of Health shows.
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The study, conducted by Sally Curtin, Margaret Warner, and Holly Hedegaard of the CDC, discovered that despite generally declining mortality, the number of suicides has greatly increased in the past 15 years in the U.S., becoming one of the 10 leading causes of death across all ages and genders since 1999.
"1999 and 2000 is the recent low point in ... suicide rate and it has increased since then," Curtin told BuzzFeed News.
Before 1999, there had been a period of "nearly consistent" decline in suicide rates since 1986, the study said, but in the millennium the rates took a turn upward, increasing from around 10 people per 100,000 to 13 people per 100,000.
Though it was creeping upward since 2000, in 2006 the speed of increase in suicides doubled from 1% to 2% per year.
"Suicide deaths are due to a confluence of factors," Curtin said, saying that a widespread increase in suicide cannot be traced to one specific trend. "There are psychological, biological, and societal factors."
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The rate of suicide for men has been consistently higher than for women for decades, but starting in 1999, women began to catch up.
In 2014, the rate for men was more than three times that for women. But the percent increase throughout the study was much greater for women — an average of 45% increase — versus men's 16% increase.
The suicide gender gap was smaller in 2014 than it has been in decades.
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