How many people die by suicide in California each year?
Data updated July 19, 2024
About 4,312 people in 2022. In other words, there were about 10.4 suicides for every 100,000 people in California. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explain that suicide can be caused by a range of factors, that exist at the individual, relationship, community and societal levels.
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In 2022,
4.31K
people died by suicide
In 2022,
10.4
people died by suicide per 100,000
The rate of suicide in California has varied over time. The risk of suicide varies by age, so analyzing suicides with an age-adjusted rate, which accounts for these factors, provides a clearer understanding of trends over time.
The suicide rate in California has increased by 8.3% over the past 20 years.
Age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 people
In 2022, California had an age-adjusted suicide rate of 10.4. This represents an 8.3% increase compared to 20 years earlier. This change in rate is 22 percentage points less than the 30.3% increase from the United States during that same period.
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Race is one demographic that affects risk of suicide. In California, White people are at the highest risk.
In California, White people died by suicide at a higher rate than any other race.
Age-adjusted deaths per 100,000 people between 2018-2022
Age is also a suicide risk factor. In California, the highest risk occurs between the ages of 80 and 84, when the rate of suicide was 19.0 per 100,000 people. When compared to the national suicide rate during the same period (2018-2022), California’s rate of suicide was lower.
Risk of suicide peaks between the ages of 80-84 years
Deaths per 100,000 people between 2018-2022
