--- title: Suicide Rate for Young Women Climbing, Says the CDC description: The suicide rate among young women is rising while, despite reporting a significantly higher number of cases, the rate for young men fell. canonical: https://time.com/3734888/suicide-mental-health-suffocation-center-for-disease-control-health/ author: Kevin McSpadden article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-06T05:05:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T04:57:52.115Z article:section: Health og:title: Suicide Rate for Young Women Rises og:description: But young men still three times more prone to taking their own lives. og:url: https://time.com/3734888/suicide-mental-health-suffocation-center-for-disease-control-health/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Suicide Rate for Young Women Rises twitter:description: But young men still three times more prone to taking their own lives. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Suicide Rate for Young Women Rises in U.S. > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators. by [Kevin McSpadden](https://time.com/author/kevin-mcspadden/) ## Kevin McSpadden Mar 6, 2015 5:05 AM UTC by [Kevin McSpadden](https://time.com/author/kevin-mcspadden/) ## Kevin McSpadden Mar 6, 2015 5:05 AM UTC The suicide rate among young women has [risen in the U.S.](http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6408a1.htm?s%5Fcid=mm6408a1%5Fw), leading to an overall uptick in cases, despite a falling number for young men taking their own lives. A weekly report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) analyzed data from 1994 to 2012 and found the suicide rate of women ages 10 to 24 years old rose from 2.7 to 3.2 cases per 100,000\. Additionally, the report says there has been a significant climb of suicides since 2007 when measured across all genders. However, young men are still three times more likely to commit suicide than women. The rate fell from 15.7 to 11.9 per 100,000 in 1994\. Furthermore, since 2007 the suicide rate also increased after a significant decrease between 1994 and 2007. 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