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70% of suicides are men (23,055 vs. 9,094)

79% of suicides are men

22 veterans died by suicide each day in 2010

Male veterans 3x more likely to commit suicide than female veterans

Veterans comprised approximately 22.2% of all suicides reported

Males >97% of all suicides among Veterans

Males 74% of non-Veteran suicides

Veterans suicides were more likely to have been married/widowed/divorced, non-Hispanic whites, and higher levels of academic achievement

Female vetarans have more non-fatal suicide events

Male veterans 80% of suicide hotline callers

27.3% increase in male suicide from 1999-2010 (28.4% in US on average)

83% of suicides of persons under age of 20 are caucasian males

Males 4x suicide rate of females

Females not more likely to have made suicide plans (1.0% vs. 1.0%)

Females not much more likely to have suicidal thoughts than males (3.9% vs. 3.5%)

Females not much more likely to have attempted suicide (0.5% vs. 0.4%)

Men 4x more likely to commit suicide (79% of all Suicides)

Young men (ages 10-24) are 3.7x more likely to commit suicide than young women (11.9 vs. 3.2 per 100k)

Male suicide rate >3x higher than female

Male suicide rate in 2013 the highest since 2001

Group with highest suicide rate is men aged 45-59 (not teenagers and young adults, as is often portrayed)

Ages 15-24: Males 5.8x rate of suicide than females; consistent across all racial demographics

Ages 15-24: until ~1930, male:female suicide held around 1.5:1 (i.e. - men committing suicide several multiples more frequently is not genetically intrinsic)

Married men are nearly 2x more likely to commit suicide than married women (63,343 vs. 31,921)

"Family problems" were the cause of 25.6% of all suicides

Female suicide rates remained consistent while male suicide rates demonstrate "sharp fluctuations with the peaks coinciding with times of high unemployment"

Generally, male suicide rates increase with markers of economic adversity, while the opposite pattern is seen in females

Female suicides are only weakly related or unrelated to economic fluctuations, but male suicides escalate countercyclically during economic downturns.

Divorced/separated men (but not single/widowed men) are >2x more likely to commit suicide than married men. Among women, there are no statistically significant differentials in the risk of suicide by marital status categories.

74% of suicides who showed showed clear post-mortem evidence of long-term alcohol misuse were men

77% of suicides are male