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https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/…/Suicide-Prevention-Data.a….
Excerpt from the VA 2019 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Report:

From 2005 to 2017, suicides among all U.S. adults increased by 43.6 percent, while suicides among Veterans increased by 6.1 percent
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America’s non-Veteran population is increasing while its Veteran population is decreasing over time.

The number of Veteran suicides exceeded 6,000 each year from 2008 to 2017.

In 2017, the suicide rate for Veterans was 1.5 times the rate for non-Veteran adults, after adjusting for population differences in age and sex.

Firearms were the method of suicide in 70.7 percent of male Veteran suicide deaths and 43.2 percent of female Veteran suicide deaths in 2017
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In addition to the aforementioned Veteran suicides, there were 919 suicides among never federally activated former National Guard and Reserve members in 2017, an average of 2.5 suicide deaths per day.