Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury

Emergency department visits

• Number of emergency department visits for self-inflicted injury: 575,000

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2015 Emergency Department Summary Tables, table 17 [PDF – 676 KB]

Mortality

All suicides

• Number of deaths: 44,193
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.7
• Cause of death rank: 10

Firearm suicides

• Number of deaths: 22,018
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.9

Suffocation suicides

• Number of deaths: 11,855
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.7

Poisoning suicides

• Number of deaths: 6,816
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.1

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2015, tables 6, 7 [PDF – 2.7 MB]