Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury
(Data are for the U.S.)
Health care use
- Number of emergency department visits for self-inflicted injury: 594,000
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 13
Mortality
All suicides
- Number of deaths: 33,300
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 11.1
- Cause of death rank: 11
Firearm suicides
- Number of deaths: 16,883
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.6
Suffocation suicides
- Number of deaths: 7,491
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.5
Poisoning suicides
- Number of deaths: 6,109
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.0
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2006, Tables B, 18
More data
- All Injuries
- Accidents/Unintentional Injuries
- Assault/Homicide
- CDC WONDER-Compressed Mortality File Underlying Cause-of-Death
- Deaths: Final Data for 2006
- Deaths: Injuries, 2002
- Deaths: Leading Causes 2004
- Fact Sheet: Data on Injuries
- Health Data Interactive
- Health, United States Trend Tables on Injury
- Injury in the United States, 2007 Chartbook
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
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- National Center for Health Statistics
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