Exhibit 257 ยท Congressionally mandated report
2026 National Veteran Suicide Prevention Annual Report
Of note, there is not a single comprehensive roster of the Veteran population and source records may be incomplete or contain errors.
2001 to 2024: 159,980 veteran suicides. 2024: 6,488 (17.7 a day); firearms in 74.3 percent; age-adjusted rate 56.5 percent higher for male veterans and 99.9 percent higher for female veterans than non-veteran adults; 55.8 percent of 2024 decedents had VA contact in 2024 or the prior five years, 44.2 percent did not; suicide rate with a recent TBI diagnosis 80.1 per 100,000 against 38.0 without. Says it is not an evaluation of risk factors or program impact (footnote 3, p. 8).
- Source
- U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
- Date
- September 2026
- Quoted from
- Limitations, p. 105
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.mentalhealth.va.gov/MENTALHEALTH/docs/data-sheets/2026/CMR_2026_National_Veteran_Suicide_Prevention_Annual_Report.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit