Suicide rates among U.S. military active duty and reserve personnel jumped in 2023 after seeing a drop the previous two years, Stars and Stripes reported, citing a Pentagon annual report released Nov. 14.
The Pentagon’s “Annual Report on Suicide in the Military for Calendar Year 2023” showed that among active-duty troops, there were 28 suicide deaths for every 100,000 service members last year, a 12% increase from 2022.
Overall, there were 523 reported suicides in 2023 compared with 493 in 2022. The number of active-duty troops who died by suicide increased to 363 from 331. The rate is calculated based on an active-duty force of about 1.28 million troops, 330,000 of which are in the Reserves and nearly 430,000 in the National Guard.
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