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It’s easy to get lost in the inundation of studies and numbers and stats that hit the internet every day. But once in awhile something is released that should make people sit up and take notice. Today’s one of those days — the U.S. government’s National Center for Health Statistics has released a new data analysis showing that the U.S. suicide rate has hit a 30-year high.

The analysis covers the period from 1999 to 2014. Reporting on the findings in the New York Times, Sabrina Tavernise notes that the uptick is present in just about every group other than black men, for whom it declined, and for men and women over 75, for whom it remained stable.

Researchers aren’t sure exactly what’s going on, Tavernise writes, but they have some theories:

Whatever the causes, Katherine Hempstead, senior adviser for health care at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, told Tavernise that “It’s really stunning to see such a large increase in suicide rates affecting virtually every age group.” And this is all part of the same story told by the equally scary numbers regarding deaths among middle-aged white Americans in recent decades, published by the economists Angus Deaton and Anne Case late last year — they specifically mentioned suicide as one of the likely causes of that trend.

In short: By the standards of rich countries, the U.S. is not doing a good job taking care of its citizens’ health and well-being. It’s a recurrent problem, unfortunately.