This document summarizes 2015 United States suicide and homicide statistics from the CDC and FBI. It finds that in 2015 there were 44,193 total suicides, with 22,018 (49.82%) by firearm. There were 17,793 total murders, with 12,979 (72.94%) by firearm. Firearm deaths, both intentional and accidental, impacted males at much higher rates than females. Specific demographic breakdowns are provided for race, age, and method of suicide and homicide.

1. Suicide and murder statistics for 2015
2015 National Vital Statistics Reports
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr66/nvsr66_06.pdf
17,793 murders
12,979 gun murders 72.94% of all murders
489 accidental gundeaths
44,193 total suicides
22,018 gun suicides
11,855 suicidesbysuffocation,hangingandstrangulation
6,816 suicidesbypoisoning
44,193 total suicides 100%
33,994 male suicide 76.92%
10,199 female suicide 23.08%
36,465 white suicides 82.51%
28,045 white male suicides 63.46%
8,420 white female suicides 19.05%
2,415 blacksuicides 5.46%
1,951 blackmale suicides 4.41%
464 blackfemale suicides 1.05%
535 indigenousnativessuicides 4.51%
535 indigenousnative male suicides 7.85%
395 indigenousnative femalesuicides 0.89%
1,273 asian/pacificislandersuicides 2.88%
855 asian/pacificislandermale suicides 1.93%
418 asian/pacificislanderfemalesuicides 0.95%
3,303 hispanicsuicides 7.47%
2,587 hispanicmale suicides 5.85%
716 hispanicfemale suicides 1.62%
22,018 gun suicides 100%
18,910 male suicidesbyguns 85.88%
3,108 female suicidesbygun 14.12%
19,161 white suicidesbygun 87.02%
16,397 white malessuicidesbyguns 74.47%
2,764 white female suicidesbygun 12.55%
1,132 blacksuicidesbygun 5.14%
1,017 blackmale suicidesbygun 4.62%
115 blackfemale suicidesbygun 0.52%
197 indigenousnativessuicidesbygun 0.89%
165 indigenousnative male suicidesbygun 0.75%
32 indigenousnative femalesuicidesbygun 0.15%
289 asian/pacificislandersuicidesbygun 1.31%
246 asian/pacificislandermale suicidesbygun 1.12%
43 asian/pacificislanderfemalesuicidesbygun 0.20%
1,162 hispanicsuicidesbygun 5.28%

2. 1,017 hispanicmale suicidesbygun 4.62%
145 hispanicfemale suicidesbygun 0.66%
17,793 total murders 100% of total murders
12,979 murderedbyguns 72.94% 100% of gunmurders
11,029 malesmurderedbyguns 61.99% 84.98%
1,950 femalesmurderedbyguns 10.96% 15.02%
3,075 total whitesmurderedbyguns 17.28% 23.69%
2,134 white malesmurderedbyguns 11.99% 16.44%
941 white femalesmurderedbyguns 5.29% 7.25%
7,515 total blacksmurderedbyguns 42.24% 57.90%
6,821 total black malesmurderedbyguns 38.34% 52.55%
694 total black femalesmurderedbyguns 3.90% 5.35%
129 indigenousnativesmurderedbyguns 0.73% 0.99%
114 indigenous native malesmurderedbyguns 0.64% 0.88%
15 indigenousnative femalesmurderedbyguns 0.08% 0.12%
192 asian/pacificislandersmurderedbyguns 1.08% 1.48%
158 asian/pacificislandermalesmurderedbyguns 0.89% 1.22%
34 asian/pacificislanderfemalesmurderedbyguns 0.19% 0.26%
2,021 hispanicsmurderedbyguns 11.36% 15.57%
1,761 hispanicmalesmurderedbyguns 9.90% 13.57%
260 hispanicfemalesmurderedbyguns 1.46% 2.00%
Law enforcement reported 770 justifiable homicides in 2015. Of those, law enforcement
officers justifiably killed 442 felons, and private citizens justifiably killed 328 people
during the commission of crimes.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/offenses-known-to-law-
enforcement/expanded-homicide
13455 total gun murdervictims
10608 male 78.84% total malesmurderedbygun,FBIcrime statistics
2818 female
29 unknowngender
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-
2015/tables/expanded_homicide_data_table_1_murder_victims_by_race_ethnicity_and_sex_2015.xls
For malesthe age-adjusteddeathrate forinjurybyfirearmswas6.1 timesthe rate forfemales.
Diabetes
79,535 deathsbydiabetesin2015 vs. 44193 suicides
1.80 ratioof suicide deaths todiabetesdeaths
There were 1.9 timesmore gun suicidesthanasphyxiationsuicides,the nextmostcommon
method.
49.82 percentof suicidescompletedbygun
3.33 ratioof male to female suicides

3. People whohave beengiftedwithbipolarhave suicide rates
of 20-25%.
36252 total gundeathsin 2015, all types,mostlymale
34997 gundeathsby suicide andmurder,mostlymale victimsandperpetrators
There are differences between the National Vital Statistics Report and the FBI Crime in the
United States report due to the different parameters of how the data is gathered.
a very good reference: http://www.vpc.org/