The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) figures show the number of "apparently self-inflicted" deaths among prisoners of that age group was the same as in 2008.
The number of suspected suicides makes up eight per cent of the 60 suicides for the entire secure estate in 2009.
The statistics also show that for the second year in a row no juveniles under the age of 18 are believed to have taken their own life.
The number of suicides in the entire secure estate reached 92 in 2007.
Claire Ward, parliamentary under-secretary of state at the MoJ, said: "Each and every death in custody is a personal tragedy for all those involved.
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