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That wiki article cites https://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars (which I guess is now https://wisqars.cdc.gov/) and doesn't really show us how that number came about.

But let's say you look at 2022 data for Fatal/NonFatal Injury Reports.[1]

49,476 suicide deaths with 14.85/100k crude rate and 14.25 age-adjusted rate.

There is no 'suicide attempt' category that I can find for NonFatal. There's a self-harm category.[2]

544,992 self-harm non-fatal injuries with 163.52/100k crude rate and 172.91 age-adjusted rate.

Sure, we could divide those out and reach roughly 1 in 11 to 1 in 12. But if you look at the definition for self-harm intent in the coding manual[3] you'll see that it's not just suicide -- it's all forms of self-harm including mutilation.

So it's probably not an accurate number, even for a naive estimate. I would want a better source (surely someone somewhere has written a paper on this).

[1] https://wisqars.cdc.gov/reports/?o=MORT&y1=2022&y2=2022&t=0&...

[2] https://wisqars.cdc.gov/reports/?o=NFI&y1=2022&y2=2022&d=0&i...

[3] https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/January-2022-CPSC-Only-NT-N...






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