Suicide rates increased from 2020 to 2022 with firearms as the leading means, data shows

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.