In 2017, the states with the highest rates of gun-related deaths – counting murders, suicides and all other categories tracked by the CDC – were Alaska (24.5 per 100,000 people), Alabama (22.9), Montana (22.5), Louisiana (21.7), Missouri and Mississippi (both 21.5), and Arkansas (20.3).
The rate of gun fatalities varies widely from state to state. On a per capita basis, there were 12 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2017 – the highest rate in more than two decades, but still well below the 16.3 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 1974, the highest rate in the CDC’s online database. While 2017 saw the highest total number of gun deaths in the U.S., this statistic does not take into account the nation’s growing population. But the number of gun murders remained far below the peak in 1993, when there were 18,253 gun homicides – and when overall violent crime levels in the U.S. Gun suicides reached their highest recorded level in 2017. Both gun murders and gun suicides have gone up in recent years: The number of gun murders rose 32% between 20, while the number of gun suicides rose each year between 20 (a 41% increase overall). This was slightly more than the 39,595 gun deaths recorded in the prior peak year of 1993. The 39,773 total gun deaths in 2017 were the most since at least 1968, the earliest year for which the CDC has online data. About half (51%) of all suicides that year – 23,854 out of 47,173 – involved a gun. murders in 2017 – 14,542 out of 19,510 – involved a firearm. What share of all murders and suicides in the U.S. The remainder were unintentional (486), involved law enforcement (553) or had undetermined circumstances (338).
were suicides (23,854), while 37% were murders (14,542), according to the CDC. In 2017, six-in-ten gun-related deaths in the U.S. Though they tend to get less attention than gun-related murders, suicides have long accounted for the majority of U.S. gun deaths are murders and what share are suicides? (CDC fatality statistics are based on information contained in death certificates.) What share of U.S. It excludes deaths in which gunshot injuries played a contributing, but not principal, role. This figure includes gun murders and gun suicides, along with three other, less common types of gun-related deaths tracked by the CDC: those that were unintentional, involved law enforcement or whose circumstances could not be determined. In 2017, the most recent year for which complete data is available, 39,773 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S., according to the CDC.
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