This article is a list of U.S. states with firearm death rates per 100,000 population.
In 2014, the overall rate of death by firearms in the United States was 10.3 per 100,000 people -- the same as for death by motor vehicles -- with suicides accounting for roughly two out of every three gun deaths.
Video Firearm death rates in the United States by state
Overall firearm death rates
- Note: The rate column can be sorted in ascending or descending order. The rank column on the left sorts separately. This way the states can be ranked by rate. Sort the state column to return to alphabetical order.
State firearm death rates, 2013. Rate per 100,000 population. National firearm death rate is 10.64. These numbers include among others death as a result of suicide, self-defense and accidents. A list regarding only murders is provided below.
Maps Firearm death rates in the United States by state
Age-adjusted table and map
These rates have been age-adjusted. The age-adjusted rates are rates that would exist if the population of each state had the same age distribution as the "standard" US population. See the references for more info:
State firearm death rates, 2013. Rate per 100,000 population. Age-adjusted death rates. United States: 10.4
Murders
This is a list of the U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The population data is the official data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The murder rates and gun murder rates were calculated based on the FBI reports. The official population of each state for 2010 and gun ownership rates were added for context.
The official population data from the U.S. Census Bureau in 2010 is 309.3 million. The gun murders in 2010 from FBI reports is 8,775.
In 2010 the reported gun murder rate for the U.S. was 2.84 per 100,000, the overall estimated gun homicide rate is 3.5. It should be noted that American statistics differ from other countries. For example, "homicide numbers in England and Wales 'exclude any cases which do not result in conviction, or where the person is not prosecuted on grounds of self defence or otherwise.'" It is reasonably inferred that the U.S. statistics are calculated at more than twice those of other countries due to the inclusion of non-arrest, non-conviction data. For instance, in 2012, the U.S. suffered 14,827 reported homicides for which only 7,133 arrests resulted. The U.S. reports at 70% conviction rate for murder prosecutions. Calculated at 2/3 of 1/2, or 1/3, the gun-related homicide rate in the U.S., for 2010, could reasonably be corrected to .95 per 100,000; a rate even less than European counterparts with generally more restrictive gun laws.
Charts and graphs
See also
- Crime and violence in Latin America
- Gun laws in the United States by state
- Gun politics in the United States
- Homicide in world cities
- Index of gun politics articles
- Latin American cities by murder rate
- List of Brazilian states by murder rate
- List of cities by murder rate
- List of countries by firearm-related death rate
- List of countries by intentional death rate - homicide plus suicide.
- List of countries by intentional homicide rate by decade
- List of countries by intentional homicide rate
- List of countries by life expectancy
- List of countries by suicide rate
- List of federal subjects of Russia by murder rate
- List of Mexican states by homicides
- List of U.S. states by homicide rate
- List of U.S. states by incarceration rate
- List of United States cities by crime rate (2012). 250,000+
- Number of guns per capita by country
- Right to keep and bear arms in the United States
- United States cities by crime rate (100,000-250,000)
- United States cities by crime rate (60,000-100,000)
References
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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