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[2] [3] Homicide rate by county. CDC. 2014 to 2020 data. [4] This is a list of U.S. states and territories by intentional homicide rate. It is typically expressed in units of deaths per 100,000 individuals per year; a homicide rate of 4 in a population of 100,000 would mean 4 murders a year, or 0.004% out of the total.
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]
Gun-related suicides and homicides in the United States [1] Gun deaths in U.S. in proportional relationship to total population (2012 analysis, based on 2008 data). Gun violence is a term of political, economic and sociological interest referring to the tens of thousands of annual firearms-related deaths and injuries occurring in the United States.
The number of murders decreased by 1,266 in 2023 with a total of 8,656 total compared to 9,922 in 2022. Even though the total number of murders may have decreased across the country, some ...
America’s five largest cities by population saw double-digit declines in homicides in 2023 compared to the year before, the latest data show. ... the number of murders dropped 13% from 2022 to ...
The largest cities - with a population of more than 1 million - saw murders drop by more than 20%, while violent crime in those cities went down by more than 10%, according to the FBI Quarterly ...
The following table of United States cities by crime rate is based on Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) statistics from 2019 for the 100 most populous cities in America that have reported data to the FBI UCR system. [1] The population numbers are based on U.S. Census estimates for the year end.
However, the U.S. had much higher murder rates compared to four other selected "developed countries", which all had average homicide rates of 0.8 per 100,000. [63] In 2004, there were 5.5 homicides for every 100,000 persons, roughly three times as high as Canada (1.9) and six times as high as Germany and Italy (0.9). [84] [70]