Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury
(Data are for the U.S.)
Health care use
- Number of emergency department visits for self-inflicted injury: 633,000
Mortality
All suicides
- Number of deaths: 36,909
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 12.0
- Cause of death rank: 10
Firearm suicides
- Number of deaths: 18,735
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.1
Suffocation suicides
- Number of deaths: 9,000
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.9
Poisoning suicides
- Number of deaths: 6,398
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.1
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2009, tables 9, 10, 18 [PDF - 2.1 MB]
More data
- All Injuries
- Accidents/Unintentional Injuries
- Assault/Homicide
- CDC WONDER-Multiple Cause-of-Death Data
- CDC WONDER - Underlying Cause of Death
- Deaths: Leading Causes for 2008 [PDF - 2.8 MB]
- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2010 [PDF - 724 KB]
- Health, United States Trend tables on Injury
- Injury in the United States, 2007 Chartbook [PDF - 6.6 MB]
- NCHS Fact Sheet - NCHS Data on Injuries
- Search Tables for Suicide in Health Data Interactive
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
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