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In 2021, there were 26,000 gun suicides and 21,000 gun homicides, together making up a sixth of deaths from external causes. Gun deaths make up about half of all suicides, but over 80% of homicides. [5] Gun deaths in 2021 rose to levels not seen since the 1990s, but remained below rates of the 1970s. [6]
Gun violence is a term of political, economic and sociological interest referring to the tens of thousands of annual firearms-related deaths and injuries occurring in the United States. [ 2 ] In 2016, a U.S. male aged 15–24 was 70 times more likely to be killed with a gun than a French male or British male.
A map compares the rates of mass shootings per capita in each state, based on a new study of gun violence data. Louisiana and Washington, D.C., had the highest.
This is a list of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate. It is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year; a homicide rate of 4 in a population of 100,000 would mean 4 murders a year, or 0.004% out of the total. The data is from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), [5] and the Federal Bureau of ...
Top 10 states of gun ownership per capita and top 10 highest gun deaths per capita on US map. Gun ownership per capita varies by state. The top ten states for gun ownership in 2021 are:
From 2011 to 2020, the most rural counties in the U.S. had a 37% higher rate of gun deaths per capita than the most urban counties, according to research published Wednesday in the journal JAMA ...
Homicide rates (from firearms) per 100,000 people by country. [1]This is a list of countries by firearm-related homicide rate per 100,000 population by year . Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon jurisdiction and reporting standards.
The study determined Oklahoma had a suicide rate of 21.4 per 100,000 people, which places the state above the national average of 14.2. Of the 857 suicides in Oklahoma in 2022, 539 of those, or ...