· That’s a 21.1% increase since 2000’s rate of 13.3 per 100,000 to 16.1. Yet there were variations in rates among people categorized by different occupational groups. The construction and extraction industries saw the most suicides, with 1,324, or 10.8% of these deaths in 2012, followed by management at 1,049 (8.5%) and production at 953 (7.7 ....