Teen+Suicide-Statistics

__**Teen Suicide Statistics**__
**Graph of Suicide Rate**

//** -Suicide is the leading cause of death among young people today.  -Suicide is the number 2 killer of young peopl between the ages of 15 and 24 in the United States and Canada. (Number one is drug overdose, single-car accidents, self-inflected gunshot wounds, falls from bridges and buildings, and self poisonings.)  -The National Center for Health Statistics estimated that in 1992 more than 5,000 young people killed themselves. -Each year, an estimated 500,000 young people attemp suicide.  -Study after study shows that at least 1/3 of all the young people in the United States have seriously thought about killing themselves.  -Out of every 10 teens who attempt or complete suicide, 7 of them have told someone in some way about their plans.  -About 20% of high school students have thought seriously about attemping suicide in the past year.  -The rate of suicide is almost 11 suicides for every 100,000 teens ages 15 to 19.  -The completion rate for teen suicide is 5 times higher for males than for females. -The attempted suicide rate for high school females is more than twice as high as for males.

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