Suicidal ideation among college students U.S. 2018

This statistic presents the percentage of college students in the U.S. who had ever seriously considered suicide as of fall 2018. According to the data, 6.9 percent of students had seriously considered suicide within the last 12 months.

Percentage of U.S. college students that had ever seriously considered suicide as of fall 2018

Characteristic	Percentage of respondents
Never	73.5%
Not in the last 12 months	15.2%
In the last 2 weeks	2.4%
In the last 30 days	2%
In the last 12 months	6.9%

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Release date

January 2019

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Region

United States

Survey time period

Fall 2018

Number of respondents

26,181 students

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

40 schools

Supplementary notes

Original question: "Have you ever seriously considered suicide?"

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