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This brief will also present data about students who reported suicide-related factors and COVID-19 stressors experienced during the pandemic. Three out of four self-reported suicide-related factors have increased among New York City public high school students from 2011 to 2021.
4 kwi 2022 · April 4, 2022. When Trevor Matthews took his own life, a year ago, his parents were left trying to understand why there are so few therapeutic interventions for children with depression....
30 wrz 2021 · Based on Community Health Survey data, 2.4% of NYC adults ages 18 and older seriously thought about killing themselves at some point in the past 12 months. Among those with suicidal ideation, 14.1% attempted suicide in the past 12 months. Suicide is preventable.
27 kwi 2023 · Among high school-age youths aged 14–18 years, 1,952 suicides occurred in 2021, making suicide the third leading cause of death for this age group (2021 rate = 9.0 per 100,000 population). Suicide accounted for approximately one fifth of deaths (18.6%) among this age group ( 2 ).
New Yorkers ages 45 to 64 had the highest rate of suicide in 2019, overall and by sex (9.6 overall, 4.7 females and 15.1 males, per 100,000 people). The suicide rate among males over age 65 declined from 18.4 in 2013 to 11.5 per 100,000 males in 2019, with an average annual decrease of 7%.
Suicide is the second leading cause of injury-related deaths among New York State residents. This dashboard shows suicide deaths in different ways and can be used to drive interventions across New York State at the local, regional, and statewide levels to further assist suicide prevention efforts.
Based on provisional data, suicide deaths in New York City (NYC) remain stable. There were 285 confirmed suicides from January to June of 20211 as of April 15, 2022. Suicide death totals by quarter and year from the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health Department)’s Vital Statistics appear below.
