Mental health conditions and suicide U.S. 2015

This statistic depicts the percentage of U.S. suicides with known or unknown mental health conditions as of 2015, by gender. According to the data, 76.8 percent of all suicides that year were among males and males accounted for 83.6 percent of suicides among those with no known mental health condition.

Distribution of U.S. suicide cases with previously known mental health conditions as of 2015, by gender

Characteristic	Female	Male
Known mental health condition	31.2%	68.8%
No known mental health condition	16.4%	83.6%
Total	23.2%	76.8%

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Release date

June 2018

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2015

Age group

10 years and older

Special properties

27 States

Supplementary notes

Includes data from 27 states: Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, and Wisconsin

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