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Urban–rural Differences in Suicide Rates, by Sex and Three Leading Methods: United States, 2000–2018

Key findings
Data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS), Mortality

• Suicide rates for urban and rural areas increased overall from 2000 through 2018, with the pace of increase greater for rural suicide rates, compared with urban, after 2007.
• In 2018, the rural male suicide rate (30.7 per 100,000) was higher than the urban male suicide rate (21.5); the rural rate for females (8.0) was higher than the urban rate (5.9).
• Over the period 2000–2018, the rural male suffocation-related suicide rate more than doubled (3.7 compared with 8.8), and in 2018, the rural male firearm-related suicide rate (18.7) was 63% higher than the urban male firearm-related suicide rate (11.5).
• Over the period of 2000–2018, the rural female suffocation-related suicide rate more than quadrupled (0.5 compared with 2.4), and firearms remained the leading method of suicide in rural females.

Keywords

intentional self-harm, urban-rural, firearm, suffocation, poisoning, male-female

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