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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]
Violent crime rate per 100k population by state (2023) [1] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by violent crime rate. It is typically expressed in units of incidents per 100,000 individuals per year; thus, a violent crime rate of 300 (per 100,000 inhabitants) in a population of 100,000 would mean 300 incidents of violent crime per year in that entire population, or 0.3% out of the total.
In 2005, the 17-24 age group was significantly over-represented in violent crime statistics, particularly homicides involving firearms. [123] In 2005, 17- to 19-year-olds were 4.3% of the overall population of the U.S. [124] but 11.2% of those killed in firearm homicides. [125] This age group accounted for 10.6% of all homicide offenses. [126]
Violent crime - as recorded by the FBI - includes homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault reported to and recorded by police forces. Its latest report shows that violent crime fell by an ...
Violent crime went down 1% in 2021 and another 1.7% in 2022, according to the FBI’s national crime estimates. "Whenever you have a period of rapid social change, it's not necessarily uncommon ...
Notably, the firearm homicide rate for American Indian or Alaska Native people in 2022, 9.3 deaths per 100,000, exceeded rates in both 2021, when it was 7.7 and 2020, when it was 7.9.
Supplementary Homicide Reports (abbreviated SHR) is a database of homicides in the United States maintained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of its Uniform Crime Reports program. The database consists of detailed reports of homicides reported to the FBI by local law enforcement agencies in 49 states and the District of Columbia.
The homicide declines come after an increase in 2020 of 29%, according to FBI data. It was largest one-year jump since the agency's record-keeping began, though still below historic highs of the ...