During 2015–2019, an estimated annual average of 10.6 million adults in the United States (4.3% of the adult population) reported having had suicidal thoughts in the past year; an estimated 3.1 million adults (1.3% of the adult population) had made a suicide plan in the past year; and an estimated annual average of 1.4 million adults (0.6% of the adult population) reported they made a suicide attempt in the past year.
SAMHSA’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) represents an important source for national data on suicide. The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA) provides NSDUH public-use data files for analysis.
Read the MMWR: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/ss/ss7101a1.htm.
