Distribution of suicides by ethnicity and gender U.S. 2019

This statistic depicts the distribution of suicide deaths among select ethnicities in 2019, by gender. According to the data, among males, about 81 percent of suicides were among white males.

Distribution of suicides in the U.S. in 2019, by ethnicity and gender

Characteristic	White, non-Hispanic	Black, non-Hispanic	American Indian/Alaska Native, non-Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander	Hispanic	Other	Unknown
Male	80.5%	7.1%	1.6%	3.1%	7.3%	1%	1%
Female	80%	6.7%	2.1%	4.1%	6.9%	1%	1%
Total	80.4%	7%	1.7%	3.3%	7.2%	1%	1%

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May 2022

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2019

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