Wyoming had the highest suicide rate of all U.S. states in 2020, according to a ranking Kaiser Family Foundation released April 12.
To calculate age-adjusted suicide rates, Kaiser Family Foundation used data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the CDC's National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.
The national age-adjusted suicide rate was 13.5 per 100,000 people in 2020.
Here's how each state and the District of Columbia stack up:
Note: The list includes ties and results in a numerical listing of 44.
- Wyoming — 30.5 suicides per 100,000
- Alaska — 27.2
- Montana — 25.9
- New Mexico — 24.2
- Idaho — 23.2
- Oklahoma — 21.9
- Colorado — 21.5
- South Dakota — 21.1
- Utah — 20.8
- West Virginia — 19.5
- Arkansas — 19.2
- Kansas — 18.4
- Oregon — 18.3
- Nevada — 18.2
- Iowa — 18.1
Missouri — 18.1
North Dakota — 18.1 - Vermont — 17.9
- Kentucky — 17.7
- Arizona — 17.6
- Tennessee — 17.1
- New Hampshire — 16.4
- Maine — 16.3
South Carolina — 16.3 - Alabama — 15.9
- Washington — 15.2
- Indiana — 15
- Nebraska — 14.9
- Wisconsin — 14.5
- Michigan — 13.9
Mississippi — 13.9 - Louisiana — 13.8
Ohio — 13.8 - Georgia — 13.7
- Virginia — 13.4
- Texas — 13.3
- North Carolina — 13.2
- Florida — 13.1
Minnesota — 13.1 - Hawaii — 12.9
- Pennsylvania — 12.6
- Delaware — 12.1
- Illinois — 10.5
- California — 10
- Connecticut — 9.3
- Maryland — 9.2
- Massachusetts — 8.4
Rhode Island — 8.4 - New York — 8
- New Jersey — 7.1
- District of Columbia — 5.4