High Schoolers Who Seriously Considered Suicide · Girls · U.S. (CDC YRBS)

## What this measures

The share of U.S. high school girls who seriously considered attempting suicide in the past 12 months. National estimates from CDC's Youth Risk Behavior Survey, every other year.

## Why it matters

It is CDC's longest-running national read on suicidal thoughts among teenagers, asked since 1991. It moves with, but is not the same as, suicide attempts and deaths (`health.cdc.suicide_rate`).

## How to read it

Percent of U.S. high school students (grades 9 to 12) answering yes, from a national school-based survey run every two years. Each point is dated January 1 of the survey year. The 95% confidence interval, about two to five points wide, is stored with each point; read moves smaller than that as noise. CDC publishes each cycle the summer after the survey or later.

## What it does not say

A self-report from students in school on the survey day; students who are absent or have left school are not counted. It is not a clinical diagnosis. It does not say why the share moved.

## Source

CDC Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), national high school estimates: data.cdc.gov `svam-8dhg` (DASH YRBSS High School, question H26, through 2017) and `nu3s-3dwd` (YRBSS Mental Health Indicators, 2019 onward), https://www.cdc.gov/yrbs/. Public domain; source: CDC. Use does not imply endorsement by CDC, HHS or the U.S. Government. The data are available from data.cdc.gov at no charge. Refreshed monthly by cdc-yrbs-sync.