Girls exhibit higher rates of suicidal ideation. This data shows that they are more likely to experience suicidality than boys.

New York University

Between Boys and Girls with Adjustment Disorders:
- Girls are 26.7 times more likely to have no motivation to stay in the world
- Girls are 8.89 times more likely to wish for death
- Girls are 9.32 times more likely to want to leave the world
- Girls are 8.71 more likely to feel that life was terrible
- Girls are 9.17 times more likely to consider death as a solution to their problems
- Girls are 9.99 more likely to wish that they had never been born

Gender Differences in Suicidal Symptoms in Patients with ADs

Ferrer, L., &amp; Kirchner, T. Suicidal Tendency in a Sample of Adolescent Outpatients with Adjustment Disorder: Gender Differences (2014, May 4). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2014.04.017 

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