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Gun Deaths in America


What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S.

On a per capita basis, there were 14.6 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2021 – the highest rate since the early 1990s, but still well below the ...

Statistics - Brady Campaign

42,654 people die from gun violence · 16,651 are murdered · 76,725 people survive gunshot injuries · 34,566 are intentionally shot by someone else and survive ...

Firearm Violence in the United States

Our analysis found 48,204 people, the second highest on record, died from gunshots in the U.S. in 2022, including 27,032 suicides, an all-time high for the ...

Gun violence in the United States - Wikipedia

The national rate of firearm deaths rose from 10.3 people for every 100,000 in 1999 to 11.9 people per 100,000 in 2018, equating to over 109 daily deaths (or ...

EveryStat - EveryStat.org

45,738 people die by guns in an average year, a rate of 13.7 deaths per 100,000 people. SOURCE: CDC, PROVISIONAL MORTALITY STATISTICS, FIVE-YEAR AVERAGE: 2019– ...

FastStats - Injuries - CDC

All firearm deaths. Number of deaths: 48,204; Deaths per 100,000 population ... USA.gov.

Most firearm deaths are suicides - USAFacts

According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data, 48,830 people were killed with a firearm in the US in 2021.

Comparing Deaths from Gun Violence in the U.S. with Other Countries

Comparing Deaths from Gun Violence in the U.S. with Other Countries ... With far more people dying of gun-related causes annually in the United ...

Facts and Figures - UC Davis Health

There were 39,707 deaths from firearms in the U.S. in 2019. Sixty percent of deaths from firearms in the U.S. are suicides. In 2019, 23,941 people in the U.S. ...

Gun Violence: The Impact on Society - NIHCM

Gun violence in the US has steep economic consequences, totaling $557 billion in 2022. Most significant are the quality-of-life costs, which include the value ...

Nearly 43000 died from gun violence in 2023: How to tell the story

Over 42,000 people died as the result of gun injuries in the U.S. in 2023, NIHCM reports. The number of people killed by firearm violence, a ...

On gun violence, the United States is an outlier

Within the US, gun violence varies widely. Age-adjusted firearm homicide rates range from a high of 14.4 per 100,000 in Washington, DC, to a low of 1.1 per ...

17 Facts About Gun Violence And School Shootings

Each day 12 children die from gun violence in America. Another 32 are shot and injured. ... Gun violence fact. Each day 12 children die from gun violence in ...

Gun Violence - Amnesty International

In 2022, there were 45,222 gun deaths in the United States, which per capita, is significantly higher than in other industrialized countries. Successive US ...

Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens in the ...

Every day, more than 125 people in America are killed with guns. The gun homicide rate in the U.S. is 26 times higher than that of other developed countries, ...

Guns Remain Leading Cause of Death for Children and Teens

There were 2,526 gun deaths in 2022 among 1- to 17-year-olds, averaging to nearly 7 per day. Firearms accounted for nearly a third of all deaths ...

Gun Violence - American Public Health Association

Gun Violence ... Gun violence is a leading cause of premature death in the U.S. Guns kill more than 48,000 people a year, and firearm injuries were among the five ...

Gun Deaths in America, 2022 - Injury Facts

Gun deaths from preventable, intentional, and undetermined causes totaled 48204 in 2022, a decrease of 1% from 2021.

How many US mass shootings have there been in 2024? - BBC

There have been more than 385 mass shootings across the US so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.