Globally, the United States led the world in the rate of firearm deaths in youth among countries with available data in 2016. The rate in the US was 36.5 times higher than in a dozen comparable high-income countries around the world; the rate of firearm deaths was five times as high comp...
In 2018, of 39740 firearm deaths, 24432 were suicides (roughly half of all suicides) and 13958 were homicides, with Mississippi, Alabama, and Wyoming having the highest rates of all gun deaths (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Hawaii had the lowest).1 As of 2015, US deaths from gun ...
PURPOSE: We examined the socio-demographic distribution of gun deaths across 3143 counties in 50 United States' states to understand the spatial patterns and correlates of high and low gun deaths. METHODS: We used aggregate counts of gun deaths and population in all counties from 1999 to 2013 ...
Gun deaths were a major factor among men: The U.S. rate was 18.4 such deaths per 100,000 men, versus 1 per 100,000 in the comparison countries. Among women, drug-related deaths explained most of the injury-related difference: the U.S. rate was 10 per 100,000 women versus fewer than...
Gun violence has also been the No.1 cause of death for children in the United States since 2020 and it has by far the highest rate of gun deaths among rich countries. According to the Gun Violence Archive, as of Dec. 12 over 40,000 people in the U.S. had died...
The US ratio of 120.5 firearms per 100 residents, up from 88 per 100 in 2011, far surpasses that of other countries around the world. Multiple studies show that where people have easy access to firearms, gun-related deaths tend to be more frequent....
The rate of firearm homicides in the United States decreased in 2022, the first drop seen since a sharp increase emerged early in the pandemic, public health officials reported. Ad In 2022, firearm homicides numbered 5.9 deaths per 100,000 people nationwide, researchers from the U.S. Centers ...
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In the years since the NFA, gun deaths in Australia decreased, most significantly gun suicides, aRAND Corporation surveyfound. The review concluded there was weak evidence to support that it had an impact on firearm homicides overall, though noted there was a decline in female firearm homicide ...
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