Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

Health care use

• Number of emergency department visits for self-inflicted injury: 713,000

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2010 Emergency Department Summary Tables, table 17 [PDF - 481 KB]

 

Mortality

All suicides

• Number of deaths: 38,364
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 12.4
• Cause of death rank: 10

Firearm suicides

• Number of deaths: 19,392
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.3

Suffocation suicides

• Number of deaths: 9,493
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.1

Poisoning suicides

• Number of deaths: 6,599
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.1

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2010, tables 9, 10, 18[PDF - 3.1 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 2009 [PDF - 2.5 MB]
• Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2011 [PDF - 1.7 MB]
• 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)