The suicide rate in America has been steadily rising over the past two decades, but actually declined in 2020, despite the reported increase in mental health problems facing the population in COVID-19 pandemic, disease control and prevention centers (CDC) findings from the study.
A report released by the agency on Monday found that the country’s total suicide rate had risen by 30 percent between 2000 and 2020, from 10.4 suicides per 100,000 to 13.5.
However, this figure has decreased in recent years during this period. The peak was reached in 2018, with 14.2 out of every 100,000 people dying from suicide, although the numbers actually fell in 2020, when the pandemic began.
While pandemic disruptions and isolation caused by the increase in mental health problems among Americans, some experts speculate that some government programs for financial relief and the sense of “community” fostered at the beginning of Covid have prevented some to take their own lives.
The suicide rate in the United States (light blue) rose dramatically from 2000 to 2018, before declining during the 2020 pandemic. Men (dark blue) of all ages are much more likely to die from suicide than women greens), establishes a CDC report
The CDC reports that suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in 2019, before falling to 12th in 2020 due to Covid and the increase in liver deaths.
Men are significantly more likely to die from suicide than women. The suicide rate for men increased from 17.7 to 100.00 in 2000 to 18.1 in 2006, a steady rate, according to researchers.
Then rates began to rise, jumping to 22.4 by 2019, before falling to 22.0 in the first year of the pandemic.
The decline in 2020 occurred despite the United States suffers from a mental health crisis during the pandemic, largely caused by disruptions in daily life suffered in the spring of 2020.
Mental health is particularly deteriorating among the nation’s youth, who have been forced to drop out of school and other social events.
However, these factors did not turn into a surge of suicides, and instead the pandemic seemed to have the opposite effect.
“Some of the suicide risk factors that have been exacerbated by the pandemic – such as economic difficulties and mental health problems – may have been buffered in the first year by various financial support packages and mental health programs,” said Jane Pirkis, director of the Center. for Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, he said american news.
Men aged 75 and over (light green) are more likely to die from suicide. The last 20 years have also seen a sharp increase in the suicide rate among men aged 25 to 44 (light blue) and 45 to 64 (dark blue).
Women aged 45 to 64 (dark blue) are most likely to commit suicide, believing that the percentage of age groups has decreased significantly from 2018 to 2020. There has been a sharp increase in the suicide rate among women aged 25 to 44 ( light blue) during the study period
Each age group among men grows steadily over a 20-year period, with no single age group experiencing a significantly different increase than the others.
Elderly people are at the highest risk of suicide, with more than 40 out of every 100,000 men over the age of 75 committing suicide each year.
Suicides among the adult group of older men even increased from 2018 to 2020, although almost every other age group saw a decline during this two-year period.
IN American Marriage and Family Therapy Associationreports that the disproportionately high suicide rate among the elderly is often the result of psychiatric disorders.
Social exclusion does not seem to be a factor, the organization said, although many older Americans report loneliness.
Women aged 45 to 64 are at greatest risk of suicide, rising from 6.2 per 100,000 in 2000 to 10.2 in 2015.
Firearms (light green) are the most common method of suicide among men, no other method is close to the same level of use
Women are more likely to die from suicide using poison (green) or firearms (light green). Choking (light blue) is also a common method of suicide.
However, the ratio began to fall sharply in the second half of 2010 to 7.9.
Large increases between 2000 and 2020 were also reported in the age groups 25 to 44 and 65 to 74.
Men often commit suicide with firearms, rarely using other methods.
However, over a two-decade period, there has been an increase in suffocation deaths among men.
Poison is a common method of suicide in women and has been the leading cause for most of the 2000s. Female suicides with firearms were equivalent to poisonings in 2016, before becoming the leading cause of suicide deaths by 2020.
Choking has also increased significantly, now outpacing poisoning as the second leading cause of suicide among women in the United States.