Suicide rates

By Metro Creative

A KFF analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Black and American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN) people experienced the largest increases in rates of death by suicide between 2010 and 2020.

According to KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research, journalism and communications organization, AIAN and white people experience the highest rates of deaths by suicide compared to all other racial and ethnic groups, but the rates among AIAN (23.9 per 100,000) are notably higher than the rates among whites (16.8 per 100,000). The rate increase among AIAN between 2010 and 2020 was 7 per 100,000 people, while the uptick among Blacks was 2.3 per 100,000 people.

The KFF also notes that suicide-related deaths among AIAN adolescents accounted for the highest rates of deaths by suicide among that demographic. The rates among AIAN adolescents (22.7 per 100,000) were more than three times higher than the rates among white adolescents (6.3 per 100,000).

— Metro Creative