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Racial inequities exist among students who reported suicidal thoughts and attempted suicide. In 2019, Black (16%), Latino/a (16%), and Asian (16%) public high school students were more likely than White (12%) high school students to report suicidal ideation.
23 kwi 2022 · From 1991 to 2017, suicide attempts by Black adolescents rose 73 percent, compared with an 18 percent rise among white adolescents. (The overall suicide rate remains higher among white...
4 kwi 2022 · Rates of suicide are also particularly high for children in care—three times higher than for children who live with their own families without legal supervision.
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.
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.
Key Points. Every 16 hours, someone dies by suicide in NYC. In 2019, the most recent year for which final Vital Statistics data are available, suicide was: The sixth leading cause of premature mortality (under age 65) in NYC.
