20%
2023 (latest)
SERIOUSLY CONSIDERED ATTEMPTING SUICIDE (YRBS)
percent of high school students · 2013–2023 · lower is better · CDC, Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report 2013–2023
17%
2013
22%
high · 2021
17%
low · 2013
+3.0 pts
since 2013
┊ dashed lines mark 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Seriously considered attempting suicide during the past year. National Total estimates, all high school students, rounded to whole percentages by the publisher. Biennial cadence is expected, not a gap; named exception to annual coverage expectations. Six survey readings from 2013 through 2023 are the full Total trend rows published in this PDF; no earlier years are inferred and no intervening years are interpolated. The checked-in publisher PDF is verified against data/cdc/READ.md before parsing. Breaks: biennial; 2021 fielded in fall 2021.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/dstr/pdf/YRBS-2023-Data-Summary-Trend-Report.pdf
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Societal-Health
Data
| Year | Seriously Considered Attempting Suicide (YRBS) | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 20% | −2.0 pts |
| 2021 | 22% | +3.0 pts |
| 2019 | 19% | +2.0 pts |
| 2017 | 17% | −1.0 pts |
| 2015 | 18% | +1.0 pts |
| 2013 | 17% | — |
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