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On September 6, 2007, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported suicide rate in American adolescents (especially boys, 10 to 24 years old) increased 8% (2003 to 2004), the largest jump in 15 years. Specifically, in 2004 there were 4,599 suicides in Americans ages 10 to 24, up from 4,232 in 2003, for a rate of 7.32 per 100,000 ...
About 21.6 suicide deaths per 100,000 people occur in Russia every year; [9] in southern Africa, the average is about 21 deaths per 100,000 people. [9] The United States reports about 14.5 deaths annually per 100,000 people, however, this rate is steadily increasing. In the 2000s, that rate was 10 people per 100,000 people per year. [9]
The 2019 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which the CDC conducted, found that between 2009 and 2018, suicide rates among adolescents aged 14–18 years increased by 61.7%. [34] Furthermore, the CDC reported that in 2019, among American adolescents in grades 9 to 12: [34] 18.8% of students reported seriously considering attempting suicide
In 2008, it was observed that U.S. suicide rates, particularly among middle-aged white women, had increased, although the causes were unclear. [22] As of 2018, about 1.7 percent of all deaths were suicides. [2] In 2018, 14.2 people per 100,000 died by suicide, the highest rate recorded in more than 30 years.
In 2021, the global rate of suicide deaths for men was 12.3 per 100,000, more than double the rate for women, which stood at 5.9 per 100,000 population. However, the sex disparity was uneven across regions, with a male-to-female ratio ranging from as low as 1.4 in the Southeast Asia Region to nearly 4.0 in the Region of the Americas.
This article includes a list of U.S. states sorted by birth and death rate, expressed per 1,000 inhabitants, for 2021, using the most recent data available from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
From 2017 to 2021, the rate of these cancers rose by more than 3% per year among people younger than 50 — even as the rate fell by 2% among people older than 65, according to the AACR report.
A study of country-level data across 36 OECD countries from 1991 to 2017 found that same-sex marriage legalization reduced the suicide rate of youth aged 10–24 by 1.191 deaths per 100,000 youth, equal to a 17.90% decrease. [33]