Veteran Suicide Rates: 17.6 Daily, 73.5% by Firearm
The most-quoted figure on veteran suicide is “22 a day,” produced from 21-state death-certificate data for 1999–2010.2 The VA’s 2024 Annual Report — with mortality data through 2022 — puts the current daily count at 17.6 Veteran suicides, but the per-Veteran rate has gone the other way.1 Research Highlights Daily count was 17.6: 6,407 Veteran …