National Statistics
Suicide takes the lives of more than 30,000 Americans every year.
Every 17 minutes another life is lost to suicide. Every day 86 Americans take their own life and more than 1,500 attempt suicide.
Suicide is now the eighth leading cause of death in Americans.
For every two victims of homicide in the United States three persons take their own lives.
There are now twice as many deaths due to suicide than due to HIV/AIDS.
Between 1952 and 1995, the suicide rates among adolescents and young adults nearly tripled.
More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza and chronic lung disease combined.
(SOURCE: National Strategy for Suicide Prevention, a collaborative effort of national
medical groups including the National Institute of Health and Center for Disease Control.)
Virginia Statistics
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people aged 10-24 in Virginia. In 2000, suicide accounted for 22 percent of all injury deaths in Virginia.
On average one Virginia teenager dies each week from suicide.
In 2000, suicide by firearms accounted for 63 percent of all suicides.
Self inflicted injuries accounted for 10 percent of all injury hospitalizations in Virginia in 2000.
The rate of suicide among Virginia youth aged 10
19 has increased 32 percent since 1975.
The total cost for self-inflicted injury haspitalization in 2000 was $25,028,032.
Medical costs resulting from hospitalizations in Virginia due to self-inflicted injuries total almost $30 million per year.
(SOURCE: Virginia Department of Health)
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