The Brockporter Health Care Sunday - Homicide and Suicide Rates For Whites and Blacks

From the CDC (Center for Disease Control) MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) for April 5, 2013:

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From 1999 to 2010, annual age-adjusted homicide death rates for blacks were at least four times the rates for whites.

In contrast, suicide rates for whites were twice as high as the rates for blacks.

From 1999 to 2010, homicide death rates decreased 13.2% among whites, from 3.8 deaths per 100,000 population to 3.3, and suicide rates increased 20.4%, from 11.3 deaths per 100,000 population to 13.6.

Among blacks, homicide death rates increased 7.0%, from 20.1 deaths per 100,000 population in 1999 to 21.5 in 2006, then decreased 17.7%, from 21.5 deaths per 100,000 population in 2006 to 17.7 in 2010.

Suicide rates decreased 7.1% among blacks, from 5.6 deaths per 100,000 population in 1999 to 5.2 in 2010.

Source: National Vital Statistics System. Mortality public use data files, 1999–2010. Available at http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data_access/vitalstatsonline.htm.