Suicide deaths

The country saw the largest increases in the mortality rate in decades among young kids and teenagers in 2020 and 2021, according to a research article released Monday.  Two researchers from the Virginia Commonwealth University School…

After two consecutive years of declines, suicide rates in the United States increased in 2021, nearly matching the record high from 2018. There were 48,183 deaths by suicide in 2021, after 45,979 in 2020 and 47,511 in 2019,…