CDC NCHS Death Rates for Suicide (1950-2020, by sex/race/age)

Dataset · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · primary source ↗

70+ year US suicide mortality timeseries from CDC's NCHS — 6.4k rows covering 1950-2020 by demographic stub (sex, race+sex, race+sex+age, education+age, marital status, urbanization, region+sex, etc). Age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 population. Surfaces long-term trends in mental-health crisis: white-male middle-age epidemic, declining female rates, rising youth suicide.

Source agency
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
6,400 demographic-year rows since 1950
API endpoint
/api/v1/cdc/suicide/timeseries

Keywords

CDC suicide ratesNCHS mortalitymental health crisisage-adjusted suicidedeaths of despair

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://data.cdc.gov/resource/9j2v-jamp. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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