How many teens die a year from peer pressure?

Answer 1

Statistics on teen deaths are not compiled under a category of "peer pressure", rather the individual categories of deaths from alcohol, drugs, suicide, driving habits, and other risky behaviors related to peer pressure.

According to National Institute of Health: As children approach adolescence, "fitting in" becomes extremely important. They begin to feel more self-conscious about their bodies than they did when they were younger and begin to wonder whether they are "good enough"---tall enough, slender enough, attractive enough---compared with others. They look to friends and the media for clues on how they measure up, and they begin to question adults' values and rules.

The most recent statistics published by the National Institute of Health (NIH), from 1999 to 2006 less than 1 percent (0.68 percent) of deaths in the US occurred to teenagers 12-19 years. This represents an average of 16,375 deaths per year for this group. The leading causes of death for the teenage population remained constant for these reasons:

• Accidents, unintentional injuries (48 percent of deaths)
• homicide (13 percent)
• suicide (11 percent)
• cancer (6 percent)
• Heart disease (3 percent)

Motor vehicle accident accounted for almost three quarters (73 percent) of all deaths from unintentional injury.

From these numbers, peer pressure could be responsible for some teen suicides (a percentage of the 11 percent) and some accidents (a percentage of the 48 percent), but there are no reliable statistics to support this.

Answer 2

theres not really a number but there are tons of kids that do get peer pressured