{"id":3873,"date":"2017-08-07T10:41:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3873"},"modified":"2017-08-07T10:41:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T14:41:25","slug":"quickstats-suicide-rates-for-teens-aged-15-19-years-by-sex-united-states-1975-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2017\/08\/07\/3873\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Suicide Rates for Teens Aged 15\u201319 Years, by Sex \u2014 United States, 1975\u20132015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6630a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/figures\/m6630qsf.gif\" width=\"439\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suicide rate for males aged 15\u201319 years increased from 12.0 to 18.1 per 100,000 population from 1975 to 1990, declined to 10.8 by 2007, and then increased 31% to 14.2 by 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The rate in 2015 for males was still lower than the peak rates in the mid- 1980s to mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<p>Rates for females aged 15\u201319 were lower than for males aged 15\u201319 but followed a similar pattern during 1975\u20132007 (increasing from 2.9 to 3.7 from 1975 to 1990, followed by a decline from 1990 to 2007).<\/p>\n<p>The rates for females then doubled from 2007 to 2015 (from 2.4 to 5.1). The rate in 2015 was the highest for females for the 1975\u20132015 period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6630a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/66\/wr\/mm6630a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The suicide rate for males aged 15\u201319 years increased from 12.0 to 18.1 per 100,000 population from 1975 to 1990, declined to 10.8 by 2007, and then increased 31% to 14.2 by 2015. The rate in 2015 for males was still lower than the peak rates in the mid- 1980s to mid-1990s. Rates for females<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53752,15995],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}