From 1999 to 2010,annual age-adjusted murder death rates for blacks were at least four times the rates for whites. In contrast, suicide rates for whites were twice as high as the rates for blacks. From 1999 to 2010, or murder death rates decreased 13.2% among whites,from 3.8 deaths per 100000 population to 3.3, and suicide rates increased 20.4%, and from 11.3 deaths per 100000 population to 13.6. Among blacks,murder death rates increased 7.0%, from 20.1 deaths per 100000 population in 1999 to 21.5 in 2006, and then decreased 17.7%,from 21.5 deaths per 100000 population in 2006 to 17.7 in 2010. Suicide rates decreased 7.1% among blacks, from 5.6 deaths per 100000 population in 1999 to 5.2 in 2010.
Source: cdc.gov