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Multiple studies show that where people have easy access to firearms, gun-related deaths tend to be more frequent, including by suicide, homicide, and unintentional injuries. [ 1 ] Created by combining List of countries by intentional homicide rate , Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country and List of countries by firearm ...
The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a homicide rate of 30 out of 100,000 is presented in the table as "30", and corresponds to 0.03% of the population dying by homicide.
This is a list of countries by estimated number of privately owned guns per 100 people. The Small Arms Survey 2017 [ 1 ] provides estimates of the total number of civilian-owned guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 people.
By comparison, gun death rates in countries like Canada (2.1 per 100,000) and Australia (1.0), as well as European nations such as France (2.7) and Spain (0.6), were far lower.
Europe 1 1 0 0 0 10,290,000 1.0 2018 [70] Sweden: Europe 1 1 0 0 0 10,327,589 1.0 2019 [71] Taiwan: Asia 2 2 0 0 0 23,580,000 0.8 2018 [72] United Kingdom: Europe 3 3 0 0 0 66,040,229 0.5 2019 Fatal shootings. See also: List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United Kingdom [73] Poland: Europe 2 2 0 0 0 38,433,600 0.5 2020
Gun violence in Sweden (Swedish: skjutningar or gängskjutningar) increased steeply among males aged 15 to 29 in the two decades prior to 2018, in addition to a rising trend in gun violence there was also a high rate of gun violence in Sweden compared to other countries in Western Europe. [82]
The grave violence in the studied period also changed character, from criminal motorcycle gangs to city suburbs. [7] [8] Sweden also stands out in having a low resolution rate (25%) for gun homicides compared to Germany and Finland at 90%. [8] In January 2018, police statistics reported an increase in gun homicides from 8 in 2006 to 43 in 2017. [9]