Distribution of suicides in the U.S. in 2017, by ethnicity and gender

Published by John Elflein, Dec 4, 2020

This statistic depicts the distribution of suicide deaths among select ethnicities in 2017, by gender. According to the data, among males, 81.8 percent of suicides were among white males.

Distribution of suicides in the U.S. in 2017, by ethnicity and gender

	White, non-Hispanic	Black, non-Hispanic	American Indian/Alaska Native, non-Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander	Hispanic	Other	Unknown
Male	81.8%	6.7%	1.5%	2.7%	7%	1%	1%
Female	81.3%	6.3%	1.9%	4.3%	6%	1%	1%
Total	81.7%	6.6%	1.6%	3%	6.8%	1%	1%

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December 2020

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United States

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2017

Supplementary notes

Percentages might not total 100% due to rounding.

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