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This article is a list of U.S. states with firearm death rates per 100,000 population.
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Seven of the ten states with the lowest rates also rank among the ten states with the most restrictive gun laws.
In 2014, the overall rate of death by firearms in the United States was 10.3 per 100,000 people — the same as for death by motor vehicles — with suicides accounting for roughly two out of every three gun deaths.
Table
Note: The rate column can be sorted in ascending or descending order. The rank column on the left sorts separately. This way the states can be ranked by rate. Sort the state column to return to alphabetical order.State firearm death rates, 2013. Rate per 100,000 population. National firearm death rate is 10.64.
Age-adjusted table and map
The rates have been age-adjusted. See the references for more info:
State firearm death rates, 2013. Rate per 100,000 population. Age-adjusted death rates. United States: 10.4
References
Firearm death rates in the United States by state Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA