Suicide
Statistics
Revised:
May 21, 2014
By: Michael G.
Conner, Psy.D, Clinical, Medical & Family Psychologist
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Suicide takes the
lives of more than 30,000 Americans every year.
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Every 18 minutes
another life is lost to suicide.
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Every day 80
Americans take their own lives and over 1,900 Americans visit Emergency
Departments for self-inflicted injury (National Hospital Ambulatory
Medical Care Survey, total 706,000).
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Suicide is now the
11th leading cause of death in Americans.
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For every two
victims of homicide in the U.S. there are three persons who take their own
lives.
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There are now twice
as many deaths due to suicide as to HIV/AIDS.
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Between 1952 and
1995, the incidence of suicide among adolescents and young adults nearly
tripled.
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In the month prior
to their suicide, 75% of elderly persons had visited a physician.
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Over half of all
suicides occur in adult men, aged 25-65.
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Many who make
suicide attempts never seek professional care after the attempt.
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Males are four
times more likely to die from suicide than are females.
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More teenagers and
young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth
defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease,
combined.
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