The Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey reveals that 12.9% of girls and women aged between 16 and 24 have attempted suicide, compared with 7.8% of all over 16-year-olds and 8% among boys and men aged 16 and 24.
The next most at-risk group after young women is men aged 25-34, with 11.9% of this group saying they had attempted to take their own life.
Three in ten of all 16–24-year-olds have had suicidal thoughts, the figures also show.
It also revealed that among both men and women prevalence of self-harm was highest in 16- to 24- year-olds, with 15.4% of men and 31.7% of women of this age reporting having self-harmed.
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