US men die by suicide about four times as often as women

The number

In the United States, men die by suicide at nearly four times the rate of women — a male rate of 22.8 per 100,000 against 5.9 per 100,000 for women in 2023, the year suicide claimed over 49,300 lives nationwide. ^[1]

In 2023, the suicide rate among males was nearly 4 times higher (22.8 per 100,000) than among females (5.9 per 100,000).

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What it does and doesn't establish

The number is a hard, verifiable fact: the sex gap in US suicide deaths is real, large and decades-long. What it does not establish is that the disparity is "ignored" — it is measured every year by governments, published by sex, and made the explicit target of major prevention charities, so the honest reading is that it is under-served, not uncared-for. Is male suicide ignored?