In the average class of 30 students, 8% have attempted suicide. This equates to approximately 2.4 students in every class having attempted suicide at some point in their lives. From 2003 to 2004, the amount of girls who used hanging as the method of suicide rose 119%. This is all because of bulling. (Yes this is real data. http://rcg.org/youth/news/0505-tsotr.html)
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this is horrible.:( good information to know though,you never know what someone else is going through. thanks for posting.
The most recent data from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention:
5-14 year olds: 0.7 per 100,000 people in this age range commit suicide
15-24: 10.1 per 100,000
25-34: 12.8 per 100,000
35-44: 16.1 per 100,000
45-54: 19.3 per 100,000
55-64: 16.7 per 100,000
65-74: 14.0 per 100,000
75-84: 15.7 per 100,000
85+: 15.6 per 100,000
Males: 19.2 per 100,000 males commit suicide
Females: 5.0 per 100,000 females commit suicide
White: 13.5 per 100,000 commit suicide
Black or African American: 5.1 per 100,000
Hispanic: 5.3 per 100,000
Asian or Pacific Islander: 6.3 per 100,000
American Indian or Alaska Native: 12.3 per 100,000
thanks distant 🙂 i can’t really believe this…it’s so much…has it gone up over the years or has it always been this way? 5-14 is sooo young. 🙁 it’s just not right…not for any of it,but it makes me so sad to think of little kids in so much suffering that they feel like they have to end their lives. ugh,it’s all so sad.
The last full year that stats are published by AFSP (2009) shows that the rate had been rising since 2005. I have a difficult time with the suicides performed by the younger population… Like you said, none of it is right… but I cannot imagine what a person so young must be going through that makes them think suicide is the only way out. It’s devastating.
Some more stats… quoted directly from AFSP:
•Every 14.2 minutes someone in the United States dies by suicide.
•Nearly 1,000,000 people make a suicide attempt every year.
•90% of people who die by suicide have a diagnosable and treatable psychiatric disorder at the time of their death.
•Most people with mental illness do not die by suicide.
•Recent data puts yearly medical costs for suicide at nearly $100 million (2005).
•Men are nearly 4 times more likely to die by suicide than women. Women attempt suicide 3 times as often as men.
•Suicide rates are highest for people between the ages of 40 and 59.
•White individuals are most likely to die by suicide, followed by Native American peoples.
From a February 23rd, 2012 article in the New York Daily News titled “New York City suicide rate is half the national average, Health Department says” …
“Despite the crowds, the cost and the general craziness, new Health Department statistics show the city’s suicide rate is six deaths per 100,000 people — about half the national average of 11 per 100,000.”
“Hanging is the preferred New York method for suicide at 28%, according to the numbers. The city with the Manhattan skyline had far more people jump to their deaths from tall buildings (18%) than nationally (2%).”
“Three-quarters of New Yorkers who committed suicide were men, and one-third of them were drinking prior to their deaths”