New data shows the suicide rate increased between 2020 and 2022, with firearms as the leading means, despite an age-adjusted decline in suicide rates from 2018 to 2020. In the report, released Thursday from the National Center for Health Statistics, data showed suicide was the 11th leading cause of death for all ages in the United States in 2022. “The rate in 2022, which was the same as the rate in 2018, marks the highest age-adjusted suicide rate in the United States since 1941,” the report noted. When examining more specific age groups, the ranking changes. For people ages 10 to 14 and 20 to 34, suicide was the second leading cause of death. For people ages 15 to 19, suicide was the third leading cause. The report also looked at changes across sex and means of suicide. For women 25 and older, suicide rates generally increased between 2020 and 2022. In the same time frame, rates decreased for boys aged 10 to 14 and 15 to 24 but generally increased for ...