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"Firearm-related deaths in the United States and 35 other high- and upper-middle-income countries". International Journal of Epidemiology. 27 (2): 214– 221. doi: 10.1093/ije/27.2.214. PMID 9602401. —Contains statistics from 36 countries between 1990 and 1995.
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 ...
This is a list of US states by gun deaths and rates of violence. In 2021, there were 26,000 gun suicides and 21,000 gun homicides, together making up a sixth of deaths from external causes. In 2021, there were 26,000 gun suicides and 21,000 gun homicides, together making up a sixth of deaths from external causes.
But when compared to only high-income countries, the United States ranks first, with more than twice as many gun-related homicides per 100,000 people as its nearest “competitor,” Chile.
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.
A report on U.S. gun violence in 2021 by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions found that states with the highest gun death rates "tend to be states in the South or Mountain West ...
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.
What to know: New gun laws rolled out in multiple states on Jan. 1, 2025. Idaho, Mississippi, Arkansas, Montana and Georgia were among the states with the weakest gun laws. States with weakest gun ...