Mean suicide poisoning deaths per year in NPDS compared with CDC WONDER databases
| Suicide poisoning deaths in NPDS* Mean (SD) | Suicide poisoning deaths in WONDER† Mean (SD) | Percentage of suicide poisoning deaths in WONDER constituted by suicide poisoning deaths in NPDS % (SD) | |
| Age | |||
| 06–19 years | 33 (9) | 140 (36) | 24 (4) |
| 20–29 years | 85 (12) | 596 (54) | 14 (2) |
| 30–39 years | 115 (17) | 1006 (104) | 12 (2) |
| 40–49 years | 156 (26) | 1596 (246) | 10 (2) |
| 50–59 years | 148 (44) | 1569 (336) | 9 (2) |
| 60–69 years | 85 (43) | 729 (281) | 11 (2) |
| 70–79 years | 40 (22) | 311 (93) | 12 (3) |
| 80+years | 27 (11) | 202 (36) | 13 (3) |
| Sex | |||
| Male | 307 (55) | 3257 (233) | 9 (2) |
| Female | 391 (94) | 2892 (384) | 13 (2) |
| Total | 699 (145) | 6150 (577) | 11 (2) |
*America’s Poison Centers’ National Poison Data System (NPDS).
†Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)’s Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (WONDER).