Suicide Rates On Increase In United States: CDC

Suicides in the United States are on the rise. In 2009 10.5 people took their own lives out of every 100,000. This increased to 13 people in 2014, reveals a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The researchers found suicide rate increase year-after-year between 1999 and 2014 among men and women of ages 10 to 74.

A statistician at the National Center for Health Statistics, Sally C. Curtin, said the increase in suicide rate is broad-based and not just one particular group that need to be focused.

Curtin is also the lead author of the new report.

In 1998 the rate suicide rate was 13 per 100,000 people in the US and the 2014 marks a return back.

Between 1999 and 2006 the rate of increase was about 1 percent and between 2006 and 2014 the rate was up by about 2 percent.

Chief medical officer of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, Dr Christine Moutier, the increase in suicides is a matter of concern.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention is a non-profit organization and it funds for the suicide research.

Moutier added prevention efforts have to be developed and more research is needed in knowing what factor is responsible for the increasing suicides.