38.2 deaths per 100,000 among men age 75 to 84 are by suicide, increasing to 55.7 among those over 85 (CDC data) — more than 16 times the rate for women in the same age group.
Losing 40,000 men a year to suicide is a national tragedy – Richard Reeves/Of Boys & Men
“A new AIBM research brief from Ravan Hawrami and Alanna Williams shows that there are also big differences by class and occupation, with construction workers most likely to die by suicide. In fact, we lose about five times as many construction workers to suicide as to workplace deaths on construction sites…
“Working-class men (those without college degrees) have bourn the brunt of recent economic and social changes, especially stagnant or sluggish wage growth and a decline in family stability (only one in two working class men aged 30 to 50 are now living with children).”