Thirty-two people jumped to their deaths from the Golden Gate Bridge in 2010, about the same number as in each of the previous two years, according to the Marin County coroner's office.

Thirty-one people committed suicide from the span in 2009, as did 34 in 2008.

The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District has been trying to raise $50 million for construction of a suicide barrier that district board members approved in 2008.

"This report means the tragedies continue and the urgency of getting this resolved increases," said Paul Muller, co-founding member of the Bridge Rail Foundation, a consortium of advocates who support the barrier. "This has been going on for too long. We know it can be stopped."

The barrier would consist of a net that would hang under the bridge to catch jumpers.

Mary Currie, a spokeswoman for the bridge district, said Tuesday that the final design process is under way but that the district has not found the money to build the barrier. If it can do so, the net could be in place by mid-2014, she said.

An estimated 1,400 to 1,500 people have committed suicide from the Golden Gate since the bridge opened in 1937, the coroner's office says.

Most of those who jump - about 83 percent - are Bay Area residents, according to a study that investigated bridge deaths from 1994 to 2009.

That report also found the typical jumper is a 40-year-old, single white man. More students hurl themselves over the railing than any other occupation.

Besides those who jumped from the bridge last year, 75 people who "showed signs of being suicidal" were plucked from the span or stopped in the parking lot, the coroner's office said in its report Monday.