Completions

   »Average of 1 person every 17.2 minutes killed themselves.
 
   »Average of 1 old person every 1 hour 37.5 minutes killed themselves.
 
   »Average of 1 young person every 2 hours 12.4 minutes killed themselves.
(If their are 279 suicides, a young person dies every 2 hours 3.7 minutes)
 
   »11th ranking cause of death in U.S.- 3rd for young (15-24 years of age)
 
   »4.1 male deaths by suicide for each female death by suicide.
 
   »Suicide ranks 11th as a cause of death; Homicide ranks 13th

Attempts

   »765,000 annual attempts in U.S. (using 25:1 ratio)
 
   »25 attempts for every death by suicide for nation. 100-200:1 for young; 4:1 for elderly.
 
   »5 million living Americans (estimate) have attempted to kill themselves.
 
   »3 female attempts for each male attempt.

Survivors

(i.e., family members and friends of a loved one who died by suicide):
 
    »Each suicide intimately affects at least 6 other people. (estimate)
 
   »Based on the over 742,000 suicides from 1977 through 2001, estimated that the number of survivors of suicides in the U.S.
is 4.45 million (1 of every 64 Americans in 2001); number grew by nearly 184,000 in 2001.
 
   »If there is a suicide every 17 minutes, then there are 6 new survivors every 17 minutes as well.