Suicide Data and Reports

Insights to Action: Increasing capacity to use suicide prevention data in Minnesota

The data: Mental health care is underutilized.

The 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that approximately 49% of adults with a mental illness do not receive care for their mental health. The most commonly cited reason for not receiving care was thinking you should be able to handle your mental health on your own. However, you don’t need to navigate mental health struggles alone. Help is available and healing is possible.

The resource: Normalize conversations about mental health.

Help ensure your loved ones know they are not alone. Review the Minnesota Suicide Prevention Taskforce’s Normalizing Conversations about Mental Health and Suicide Toolkit (PDF) for recommendations on how to talk about mental health.

The action: Start the conversation!
Start conversations with your loved ones about their mental health. This small act can be the support someone needs to seek help and receive care.

If this brought up painful feelings for you, help is available. Call or text 988 or chat online at 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (988lifeline.org).

Data reports and dashboards

• Data Brief: Suicide Up in 2022, Down in 2023 (PDF)
• Data Brief: Suicide Rate Increased in 2021, 2022 (PDF)
• Nonfatal Hospital Visits for Intentional Drug Overdose Among Minnesota Residents, 2016-2022 (PDF)
• Minnesota Suicide Mortality, Preliminary 2020 Report (PDF)
• Hospital Treated Suicidal and Self-Harm Injury
• 2019 Suicides in Minnesota executive summary (PDF)
• Suicide in Minnesota, 1999-2017 (PDF)
• Nonfatal, Self-Inflicted Injury Fact Sheet: Minnesota Hospital Discharge Data 2017 (PDF)

Evaluation reports

• Minnesota 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline - 2022 Call Summary (PDF)
• Minnesota 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline - 2023 Summary (PDF)

Finding data

The following video series provide tutorials and instructions on where to find suicide data. These videos were last updated in April, 2022.

• Finding Youth Suicide Data Using the Minnesota Student Survey - Risk and Protective Factors
• Finding Youth Suicide Data using the Minnesota Student Survey -- Health Disparities in Suicide Ideation
• Finding Youth Suicide Data -- Hospitalizations due to Self-Harm
• MIDAS Self Harm module Tutorial

Related information

• 2022 Suicide Prevention Plan Update: Legislative Report (PDF)
• 2018 Suicide Prevention: Legislative Report (PDF)
• 2016 Legislative Report: Suicide-Related Data Plan: Improving the timeliness, usefulness and quality of data (PDF)
• Suicide-Related Data Plan

For more information or questions on suicide data contact health.suicideprev.mdh@state.mn.us.