Suicide Rates are Rising, Especially in Rural America

Published:
September 19, 2019

September 6, 2019

NBC News reports that “From 1999 to 2016, the rate of suicide among Americans ages 25 to 64 rose by 41 percent, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open. Rates among people living in rural counties were 25 percent higher than those in major metropolitan areas. A number of factors appear to be driving suicide rates up in rural America, including poverty, low income and underemployment, said lead study author Danielle Steelesmith, a postdoctoral fellow at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center.”

Read the full NBC News article or access the original journal article, Contextual Factors Associated With County-Level Suicide Rates in the United States, 1999 to 2016.

Suicide risk by county

suicide rates by year
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