Suicide rates among U.S. children aged 10 to 14 were nearly identical for girls and boys in 2024, according to an analysis of federal mortality data published this week in JAMA Pediatrics. The rate stood at 2.38 per 100,000 for boys and 2.28 per 100,000 for girls, a difference of about 4%.
Jean Twenge, a psychologist at San Diego State University who conducted the analysis using the CDC's Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, described the convergence to MedPage Today as the first time this has happened in the available records.