Suicide-statistics | SECOND CHANCE SUICIDE AWARENESS

In 2015, 5,491 youth age 15-24 died by suicide.
Suicide was the 2nd leading cause of death for 15-24 year olds in 2015.
Suicide was also the 2nd leading cause of death for youth aged 10-14 years old.
The 2015 Youth Risk and Behavior Survey found that in previous 12 months among high school students; 17.7% seriously considered suicide; 14.6% made a plan for suicide; 8.6% attempted suicide one or more times; 2.8% made a suicide attempt that had to be treated by doctor or nurse.ii
Girls are more likely to attempt suicide, but boys are 4.34 times more likely to die by suicide than girls.
Among ages 15-24, 4,438 Caucasians, 610 African Americans, 283 Asian/Pacific Islanders and 160 Native Americans died by suicide during 2015.

In 2015, 44,193 Americans died by suicide.
The suicide rate in the US in 2014 was 13.8 per 100,000. This is the highest recorded rate in the last thirty years..
Suicide was the 10th leading cause of death, with 1.6% of all US deaths in 2015 being ruled as suicides.
Though the suicide rate had declined from its previous highest point (a rate of 12.87 in 1986), it has steadily risen since the early 2000s.
On average, there were 121.1 suicides every day in the US, or one suicide every 11.9 minutes.
As it is estimated that there is one death by suicide for every 25 attempts, approximately 1,104,825 attempts were made in 2015. This is one attempt made every 29 seconds.
Men accounted for 76.92% of all US suicides, yet there were three female attempts for every male attempt.
Overall, the most predominant method of suicide in the US was firearms. This holds true for men, but the leading method of suicide for women was poisoning.
As recent research predicts that for every suicide, 147 people are affected and 18 experience major life disruptions, the number of survivors of suicide loss grew by 265,158 in 2015.

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Data provided by The American Association of Suicidology