Youth Suicide Facts (provisional 2000 statistics for 15-24 year olds)

Youth Suicide Facts
Provisional 2000 Statistics (15–24 year olds)

Date of publication: October 2002

This fact sheet comments only on youth suicides. As there are still a large number of deaths awaiting coroner’s findings, all age suicide statistics will not be available for 2000 until April 2003.

Provisional 2000 data is available on youth suicides. Provisional 1999 statistics for all ages are available on the New Zealand Health Information. These figures are still considered provisional because there are a small number of deaths that are subject to coroners’ findings, and for which a cause of death has therefore not yet been assigned. Data becomes official once it is published by the New Zealand Health Information Service (NZHIS) in the Annual Mortality Publication series.

The youth suicide rate has now decreased for five consecutive years. The number and rate for 2000 are the lowest since 1986. The number and rate of youth suicides have dropped for both Maori and non-Maori, reflecting a reduction in the number of female suicide deaths. There has been a slight increase in the Maori male rate, and a slight decrease in the non-Maori male rate compared with 1999.

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