{"id":3488,"date":"2017-03-20T11:38:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3488"},"modified":"2017-03-20T11:38:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T15:38:07","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-rate-for-suicide-by-sex-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-1975-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/03\/20\/3488\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Rate for Suicide by Sex \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1975\u20132015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6610a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m6610qsf.gif\" width=\"442\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was an overall decline of 24% in the age-adjusted suicide rate from 1977 (13.7 per 100,000) to 2000 (10.4).<\/p>\n<p>The rate increased in most years from 2000 to 2015.\u00a0The 2015 \u00a0suicide rate (13.3) was 28% higher than in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>The rates for males and females \u00a0followed the overall pattern; however, the rate for males was approximately 3\u20135 times higher than the rate for females throughout the study period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6610a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6610a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was an overall decline of 24% in the age-adjusted suicide rate from 1977 (13.7 per 100,000) to 2000 (10.4). The rate increased in most years from 2000 to 2015.\u00a0The 2015 \u00a0suicide rate (13.3) was 28% higher than in 2000. The rates for males and females \u00a0followed the overall pattern; however, the rate for males<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53752,15995,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}