US Firearm Mortality Rates 1999-2017 (IMAGE)

Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan

US Firearm Mortality Rates 1999-2017

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The overall firearm mortality rate in the U.S. was relatively stable for 15 years and then rose sharply beginning in 2015.

During the entire 19-year period, 612,310 Americans died from firearm injuries that were self-inflicted, caused by others, accidental or of undetermined cause. Nearly one-fifth of the deaths happened in just the last three years of that time.

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