Name: Distribution of suicides in the U.S. in 2016, by ethnicity and gender
Creator: Statista

This statistic depicts the distribution of suicide deaths among select ethnicities in 2016, by gender. According to the data, among males, 82.9 percent of suicides were among white males.

Distribution of suicides in the U.S. in 2016, by ethnicity and gender

	Male	Female	Total
White, non-Hispanic	82.9%	82.6%	82.8%
Black, non-Hispanic	6.4%	5.8%	6.3%
American Indian/Alaska Native, non-Hispanic	1.7%	2.1%	1.8%
Asian/Pacific Islander	2.6%	3.7%	2.9%
Hispanic	6.2%	5.3%	6%
Other	1%	1%	1%
Unknown	0%	0%	0%

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October 2019

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United States

Survey time period

2016

Supplementary notes

Percentages might not total 100% due to rounding.

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