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This article is a list of U.S. states
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with firearm death rates per 100,000 population.
National statistics
In 2020, over 45,000 people in the United States (13.6 per 100,000 people) died by firearms. More than half of these people died by suicide. According to the FBI's 2020Uniform Crime Report
The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program compiles official data on crime in the United States, published by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). UCR is "a nationwide, cooperative statistical effort of nearly 18,000 city, university and co ...
, the total number of murders increased by nearly one-third from 2019 to 2020. In both years, three-quarters of these murders were committed with firearms; that percentage slightly increased from 2019 (74%) to 2020 (77%).States with weaker gun laws have higher rates of firearm related homicides and suicides, study findsBy Emma Tucker and Priya Krishnakumar,
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In 2017 and 2018, of all trauma-based deaths in the United States (including car crashes), firearm deaths caused the greatest loss of "years of potential life," a unit of measurement that considers each person's age at death.
2020 firearm death rates by state. Map
Includes suicides. State abbreviations on the map are explained in the table in the next section.
2019 firearm death rates and counts by state. Table and map
Includes suicides, too.
* below indicates "Crime in STATE" links.
Murders
This is a list of theU.S. states
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and the District of Columbia
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. The population data is the official data from the U.S. Census Bureau
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. The murder rates and gun murder rates were calculated based on the FBI
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reports. The official population of each state for 2010 and gun ownership rates were added for context.
The gun murders in 2010 from FBI
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Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program was 8,775. The total number of murders from all weapons was 12,996. These figures includes murders and willful manslaughters, but excludes "deaths caused by negligence, suicide, or accident" and justifiable homicide
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s. The U.S. reports a 70% conviction rate for murder prosecutions.
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