A Sunday Express headline warned of 'shock at huge rise in teenage suicide rate'. But this comes from data on registrations, not occurrences. The ONS warned that there may have been a backlog of registrations after delays due to the pandemic.
, claims that 215 people aged 15-19 died by suicide in 2021. It also includes claims from the charity YoungMinds that “the total was 35 per cent up on 2020”.
Both of these claims are based on a misinterpretation of official data, which reports the number of deaths by suicide that wereThe Office for National Statistics , which produced the data, warns specificallythat some suicide registrations may have been delayed from 2020 to 2021 by disruption due to the pandemic.
We do not yet know whether the number of teenage suicides rose in 2021 but the latest available evidence suggests that the suicide rate in 2021Full Fact contacted YoungMinds, where a spokesperson told us: “We are grateful to Full Fact for pointing out that an apparent increase in suicides among young people in the last year could partly be explained by a delay in registration of deaths.
"We apologise for any confusion we caused by not making that clear. As an organisation that prides itself on accurate and thorough reporting of research, we are reviewing what happened to make sure we tighten our processes accordingly.
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