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The U.S. recorded 48,800 suicide deaths in 2024

That's about 500 fewer than in 2023

Experts say it’s unclear whether this decline will continue

THURSDAY, Dec. 11, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. suicide rate dipped slightly in 2024, offering a small but hopeful improvement after years of increases, according to new provisional data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

A little over 48,800 people died by suicide last year, about 500 fewer than in 2023.

That translates to a national rate of 13.7 deaths per 100,000 people, down from more than 14 per 100,000 the year before.

"Whether this is a blip on the radar” or the start of a prolonged decline, is unclear, Katherine Keyes , a public health professor at Columbia University, told The Associ

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