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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 ...
Between 2014 and 2024, the suicide rate for young Americans aged 10-24 years has risen by 56%, with Black youth experiencing a particularly sharp rise of 78%. [10] Among adolescents aged 10-14, the suicide rate surged by 167% for girls and 91% for boys between 2010 and 2020. [11]
For Americans aged 65 and older, the rate is 14.3 per 100,000. Suicide rates are also elevated among teens. For every 100,000 individuals within an age group there are 0.9 suicides in ages 10–14, 6.9 among ages 15–19, and 12.7 among ages 20–24. [22]
According to new data from the National Institute of Mental Health, preteen suicide rates (among kids between the ages of 8 and 12) rose by 8% annually from 2008 to 2022.
This group had the highest age-adjusted 2021 suicide rate and experienced the highest relative percentage change from 2018 to 2021 (from 22.3 to 28.1 per 100,000), the CDC data said.
The age-adjusted non-Hispanic white suicide rate declined by nearly 4%. [52] In 2006, suicide rates were higher for older white men. [53] By 2021, suicide rates were increasing for Black children. [54] From 2022, the suicide rate of Black youth exceeded that of White youth for the first time. [55]
Idaho had the fifth-highest youth suicide rate in the U.S. from 1999 to 2020, according to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. One of the things we can do is to address the ...
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.