a few stats
Am a bit busier today than I'd thought I would be, but I did find a few stats to put up . . .1999 - 2004, United States Firearm Deaths and Rates per 100,000 - All races, sexes, and ages
Number of Deaths = 177,057 with Population of 1,718,061,656
The UK's mid-2005 population 60,209,500 with the following number of deaths from firearms injury - United Kingdom, 1994 to 2003
Year - Number
1994 - 341
1995 - 358
1996 - 254
1997 - 201
1998 - 203
1999 - 210
2000 - 204
2001 - 167
2002 - 169
2003 - 163
Cause of death was defined using the International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) codes E922, E955.0-E955.4, E965.0-E965.4, E985.0-E985.4 and E970 from 1994 to 2000 and the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes W32-W34, X72-X74, X93-X95, Y22-Y24 and Y35.0 from 2001 onwards.Data for England and Wales are for deaths occurring in the calendar year (which were registered before the release of the routine annual publication). Data for Scotland and Northern Ireland are for deaths registered in the calendar year.
and last but not least (before I get back to my REAL work . . .
Gun deaths per 100,000 population (for the year indicated):
Homicide Suicide Unintentional
USA 4.08 (1999) 6.08 (1999) 0.42 (1999)
Canada 0.54 (1999) 2.65 (1997) 0.15 (1997)
Switzerland 0.50 (1999) 5.78 (1998) -
Scotland 0.12 (1999) 0.27 (1999) -
England/Wales 0.12 (1999/00) 0.22 (1999) 0.01 (1999)
Japan 0.04* (1998) 0.04 (1995)
* Homicide & attempted homicide by handgun
Data collected by Philip Alpers, Harvard Injury Control Research Center, and HELP Network Additional data can be found in Table A.10 of the World Report on Violence and Health, published by the World Health Organization on 3 October 2002.
Labels: politics
posted by Sara @ 11:04 am
3 Comments:
the craziest thing about those statistics is switzerland. the rate of gun suicide is so high compared to the rate of gun homicide!
do people in the UK use guns to hunt?
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Yes, they can have guns for hunting, but they must acquire a licence for it proving that it is really for hunting & apparently the fee for it is rather high as well.
Your day to day beat cops don't have guns, but special units have them (ie DPG = diplomatic protective group and SO19 = firearms unit)
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