Suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years in Ceará
Ceará: Suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years was 3.65 in 2024. ▲ Rising
Suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years in Ceará, 2007–2024
Source: UNICEF.
Analysis
Ceará recorded 3.65 for suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years in 2024.
The figure is up 1.1% on the previous year and up 4.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years in Ceará peaked at 5.18 in 2021 and was at its lowest, 0.5, in 2017.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 18 years of available data.
Suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years in Ceará, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 3 | — |
| 2008 | 2.89 | -3.7% |
| 2009 | 2.73 | -5.5% |
| 2010 | 3.11 | +13.9% |
| 2011 | 2.72 | -12.5% |
| 2012 | 3.01 | +10.7% |
| 2013 | 3.69 | +22.6% |
| 2014 | 3.5 | -5.1% |
| 2015 | 3.25 | -7.1% |
| 2016 | 2.91 | -10.5% |
| 2017 | 0.5 | -82.8% |
| 2018 | 3.65 | +630.0% |
| 2019 | 4.36 | +19.5% |
| 2020 | 3.66 | -16.1% |
| 2021 | 5.18 | +41.5% |
| 2022 | 4.52 | -12.7% |
| 2023 | 3.61 | -20.1% |
| 2024 | 3.65 | +1.1% |
Biggest year-on-year movements
Years where Suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years in Ceará changed far more than this series normally does. A large move can be a real event or a change in how the figure was measured — the source note below says who published it.
| Year | Change | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | +630.0% | 0.5 | 3.65 |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 2.87 | 2.73 | 3 | 3 |
| 2010s | 3.07 | 0.5 | 4.36 | 10 |
| 2020s | 4.12 | 3.61 | 5.18 | 5 |
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More health data for Ceará
- Overweight: % of children aged 5 to 9 years who are overweight for 17.27 (2025)
- Overweight: % of children aged 0 to 5 years with high weight for 10.46 (2025)
- Overweight: overweight adolescents aged 10 to 19 21.17 (2025)
- % of Polio immunization coverage 94.52 (2024)
- Childhood mortality rate - under 5 years old 13.2 (2024)
- % of Triple bacterial DTP immunization coverage 95.16 (2024)
- Taxa de mortalidade infantil 11.3 (2024)
- % of Triple Viral D1 immunization coverage 88.98 (2024)
- Suicides of children and adolescents 48 (2024)
- Maternal mortality ratio 51.2 (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years in Ceará?
- Suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years in Ceará was 3.65 in 2024, according to UNICEF.
- What is the highest suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years recorded in Ceará?
- The highest recorded value was 5.18 in 2021.
- What is the lowest suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years recorded in Ceará?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.5 in 2017.
- How does Ceará rank for suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years?
- Ceará ranks 7th out of 11 groups with data for 2024.
- Is suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years rising or falling in Ceará?
- Over the last ten years it is up 4.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Ceará data come from?
- The figures come from UNICEF, published as part of Suicide rate of children and adolescents aged 10 to 19 years. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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