Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury

Emergency department visits

• Number of emergency department visits for self-inflicted injury: 836,000

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2011 Emergency Department Summary Tables. Table 17 [PDF - 1.1 MB]

Mortality

All suicides

• Number of deaths: 42,773
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.4
• Cause of death rank: 10

Firearm suicides

• Number of deaths: 21,334
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.7

Suffocation suicides

• Number of deaths: 11,407
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.6

Poisoning suicides

• Number of deaths: 6,808
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.1

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2014, table 18 [PDF - 4.4 MB]