Table 1.

2018 Youth Suicide Statistics (2017 Statistics¹)²

Age in years	N deaths	Cause of death rank	Suicide rate3
5 to 7	0 (0)	--	--
8	2 (1)	16 (16)	0.04 (0.02)
9	7 (4)	7 (11)	0.17 (0.10)
10	21 (12)	5 (7)	0.50 (0.29)
11	54 (42)	3 (4)	1.28 (1.01)
12	101 (77)	2 (3)	2.42 (1.86)
13	164 (149)	1 (2)	3.95 (3.59)
14	256 (237)	1 (1)	6.14 (5.75)
15	360 (349)	1 (1)	8.69 (8.49)
16	402 (438)	2 (2)	9.73 (10.38)
17	467 (469)	2 (2)	11.01 (10.93)
18	554 (559)	2 (2)	12.82 (13.20)
Total	2388 (2337)	2 (2)	4.12 (4.03)

¹2017 statistics reported in parentheses

²Data from CDC 2020a, 2020b

³Deaths per 100,000 in the population