Share of suicides among U.S. veterans in 2018, by method and gender

Published by John Elflein, Nov 19, 2020

This statistic shows the percentage of U.S. veteran suicides that were carried out by select methods in 2018, by gender. In 2018, around 42 percent of female veterans that committed suicide did so by firearms, compared to 69 percent of male veterans that committed suicide.

Distribution of veteran suicides in the U.S. in 2018, by method and gender

	Female	Male
Firearms	41.9%	69.4%
Poisoning	31.6%	8.5%
Suffocation	20.3%	16.9%
Other	6.2%	5.2%

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November 2020

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United States

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2018

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