Young people were especially affected
n a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics tracking U.S. suicide rates from 2001 to 2021, researchers report that suicide rates increased in 2021 after a two-year decline.
From 2019 to 2020—a stretch of time, in the latter half, marked by the pandemic—suicide rates declined. “That was surprising given COVID-19 and the stresses it brought,” says Sally Curtin, statistician and co-author of the NCHS report. “But we know that COVID-19 affected different groups of people differently. The drop [in suicides] was really mostly experienced by white and middle-aged people; the rates for some other groups were a mixed bag.
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