All-time high nominally or ‘inflation adjusted’ for the extra population growth? In a growing population I would expect just about every year to be a record.
If society was functioning correctly, the number should be going down. The field of psychology has advanced over the years and treatment options have increased. Welcome to late stage capitalism.
Was curious so did some digging, this article did a write up: “Provisional CDC data show that the number of suicide deaths in 2022 is the highest recorded, exceeding the next closest year (2018) by over 1,000 deaths (Figure 1). When adjusted for population growth and age, the suicide rate has risen by 16% from 2011 to 2022, moving from 12.3 to 14.4 deaths per 100,000 individuals. Looking back further to 1999, there is a substantial 37% increase from a rate of 10.57 per 100,000. Notably, while 2022 had the highest recorded number of suicide deaths, its rate is similar to 2018 (14.5 in 2022 vs. 14.2 in 2018 per 100,000) but higher than the rate in 2020—the year before suicide deaths began to climb again. Increases in the number of suicide deaths follow high levels of mental health symptoms during COVID, rising financial stressors, and longstanding difficulty accessing needed mental health care—particularly for some populations. Total suicide numbers may be undercounted, as some research suggests that suicides may be misclassified as drug overdose deaths since it can be difficult to determine whether drug overdoses are intentional.”
All-time high nominally or ‘inflation adjusted’ for the extra population growth? In a growing population I would expect just about every year to be a record.
If society was functioning correctly, the number should be going down. The field of psychology has advanced over the years and treatment options have increased. Welcome to late stage capitalism.
In the US, access to those services is difficult at best, particularly for properly trained mental heath personnel.
another thanks to Reagan
The current suicide rate of 16.1 per 100k is the highest since at least 2000.
Can’t say it doesn’t make sense. Not exactly a lot going on around us to make anyone think the world is going to get better.
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/
If anything it dipped during the pandemic and is returning to “normal” (although I can’t see before 2018).
So, still an all-time high.
Correct, and increasing at an alarming rate
Was curious so did some digging, this article did a write up: “Provisional CDC data show that the number of suicide deaths in 2022 is the highest recorded, exceeding the next closest year (2018) by over 1,000 deaths (Figure 1). When adjusted for population growth and age, the suicide rate has risen by 16% from 2011 to 2022, moving from 12.3 to 14.4 deaths per 100,000 individuals. Looking back further to 1999, there is a substantial 37% increase from a rate of 10.57 per 100,000. Notably, while 2022 had the highest recorded number of suicide deaths, its rate is similar to 2018 (14.5 in 2022 vs. 14.2 in 2018 per 100,000) but higher than the rate in 2020—the year before suicide deaths began to climb again. Increases in the number of suicide deaths follow high levels of mental health symptoms during COVID, rising financial stressors, and longstanding difficulty accessing needed mental health care—particularly for some populations. Total suicide numbers may be undercounted, as some research suggests that suicides may be misclassified as drug overdose deaths since it can be difficult to determine whether drug overdoses are intentional.”