{"id":4225,"date":"2018-06-08T09:15:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2018-06-08T09:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T13:15:01","slug":"quickstats-homicide-and-suicide%e2%80%a0-death-rates-for-persons-aged-15-19-years-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-1999-201","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2018\/06\/08\/4225\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Homicide and Suicide\u2020 Death Rates for Persons Aged 15\u201319 Years \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1999\u2013201"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6722a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/figures\/mm6722a7-F.gif\" width=\"430\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1999, the homicide death rate for persons aged 15\u201319 years (10.4 per 100,000) was higher than the suicide rate (8.0). By 2010\u20132011, the homicide and suicide rates had converged.<\/p>\n<p>After 2011, the suicide rate increased to 10.0 in 2016; the homicide rate declined through 2013 but then increased to 8.6 in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0National Vital Statistics System. 1999\u20132016.\u00a0<a class=\"tp-link-policy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6722a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/67\/wr\/mm6722a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1999, the homicide death rate for persons aged 15\u201319 years (10.4 per 100,000) was higher than the suicide rate (8.0). By 2010\u20132011, the homicide and suicide rates had converged. After 2011, the suicide rate increased to 10.0 in 2016; the homicide rate declined through 2013 but then increased to 8.6 in 2016. Source:\u00a0National Vital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,62348,47317,53752,15995,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225"}],"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=4225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}