Just Updated on Kidsdata.org: Youth Suicide & Self-Inflicted Injury Data

All throughout May, which is Mental Health Month, kidsdata.org will be releasing data related to children’s emotional well being. This week kidsdata.org’s statewide expansion continues by adding a key measure of emotional well being – youth suicide and self-inflicted injury data for counties across California. These data are provided by the California Department of Health Services, and are broken down by age, gender and race/ethnicity.

Insights from these data include:

• From 1995-97 to 2005-07, California’s youth suicide rate declined by 27 percent.
• Males are much more likely than females to commit suicide. Among California youth ages 15-24, between 1995 and 2007, four-to-five times as many males committed suicide each year than females.
• California’s rate of hospitalizations for self-inflicted injuries among youth ages 5-20 decreased nearly every year from 2001-06.
• Over a ten-year period, from 1998-2007, nearly 4,000 (3,836) California children and youth ages 5-24 committed suicide.

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