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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.
School shootings in the United Kingdom (1 C, 6 P) School shootings in the United States (5 C, 10 P) This page was last edited on 10 June 2024, at 17:17 (UTC). Text is ...
The # symbol indicates the massacre's ranking by number of deaths (since this list is sorted by death toll, not by date or by number of overall casualties). The W column gives a basic description of the weapons used: F – Firearms and other ranged weapons.
2023 could be among worst years in recent memories for school violence
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.
School shootings are a particularly American phenomenon — as the researchers behind the study note, there were 44 such shootings between 1966 and 2008, compared with just seven in all of Europe.
Europe Eastern Europe Belgium * Europe Western Europe Belize * Americas Central America Benin * Africa Western Africa Bermuda: Americas Northern America Bhutan * Asia Southern Asia Bolivia * Americas South America Bosnia and Herzegovina: Europe Southern Europe Botswana: Africa
Of 544 school shooting incidents over an 11-year period, less than 5% of the shooters were female, according to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit group that advocates for stronger gun laws ...