Overview
- CBS figures, published Friday, June 19, 2026, report 1,758 suicide deaths in 2025, a rate of 9.7 per 100,000 and the lowest level recorded since 2010.
- Men accounted for more than twice as many deaths as women in 2025, with 1,205 male and 553 female suicides and a male rate of 13.4 per 100,000.
- People in their fifties and sixties made up 37 percent of suicides in 2025, with about 14 deaths per 100,000 among those aged 50–70.
- Suicides have risen over the past 25 years among teenage girls and women in their twenties, and suicide was the leading cause of death for people under 30 in 2025.
- Prevention experts link the recent decline to stepped-up suicide-prevention work and more open discussion of mental health, but they caution the data do not prove direct causation and call for targeted policies and continued monitoring.