{"id":6138,"date":"2021-10-15T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6138"},"modified":"2021-10-15T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-15T19:02:00","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-rates-of-firearm-related-suicide-by-race-hispanic-origin-and-sex-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/10\/15\/6138\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Rates of Firearm-Related Suicide,\u00a0by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6140\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/mm7041a5-f.gif\" alt=\"mm7041a5-f\" width=\"448\" height=\"349\"><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, among males, non-Hispanic White males had the highest age-adjusted rate of firearm-related suicide at 15.8 per 100,000 population, followed by non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaskan Native males (11.2), non-Hispanic Black males (6.9), Hispanic males (4.6), and non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander males (3.2).<\/p>\n<p>Among females, non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaskan Native females had the highest rates (2.6 and 2.2, respectively), followed by non-Hispanic Black females (0.8), Hispanic females (0.6), and non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander females (0.4).<\/p>\n<p>Males had higher rates than females across all race and Hispanic origin groups.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source<\/b>: National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2019.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7041a5.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7041a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, among males, non-Hispanic White males had the highest age-adjusted rate of firearm-related suicide at 15.8 per 100,000 population, followed by non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaskan Native males (11.2), non-Hispanic Black males (6.9), Hispanic males (4.6), and non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander males (3.2). Among females, non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaskan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,62304,47315,47317,53752,15995,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138"}],"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=6138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}