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English: Chart showing gun-related homicide and suicide deaths in the United States since 1999.
  • Data through 2016:

National Safety Council (NSC):
https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/firearms/data-details/
(Click on "Data Table")

Actual NSC table:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSSw6_GoTEqxIiLYTPs8_AmJ1P4DnpEJJYyVw0yAauGOPR72_Rm2RFIZwhgvt3wQQa51hhfMobByRSy/pubhtml
Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180829040259/https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSSw6_GoTEqxIiLYTPs8_AmJ1P4DnpEJJYyVw0yAauGOPR72_Rm2RFIZwhgvt3wQQa51hhfMobByRSy/pubhtml

NSC credits source data from U.S. government source (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) as follows: "Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Causes of Death 1999-2016 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released December 2017. Data are from the Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999-2016, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed at http://wonder.cdc.gov/mcd-icd10.html "

  • 2017 data from CNN:
Original: https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/health/gun-deaths-highest-40-years-cdc/
Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20181213200738/https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/health/gun-deaths-highest-40-years-cdc/
  • 2018 data from The Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence:
Original: https://efsgv.org/press-archive/2020/new-cdc-data-show-39740-people-died-by-gun-violence-in-2018/ dated January 31, 2020
Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20200216032433/https://efsgv.org/press-archive/2020/new-cdc-data-show-39740-people-died-by-gun-violence-in-2018/
  • 2019-2023 data from The Gun Violence Archive:
Original: https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls
Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20240105214732/https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls
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Data in uploader's Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, from which chart was generated:

Year Suicide Homicide

1999-2016 data from National Safety Council (NSC; source above):

1999 16,599 10,828
2000 16,586 10,801
2001 16,869 11,348
2002 17,108 11,829
2003 16,907 11,920
2004 16,750 11,624
2005 17,002 12,352
2006 16,883 12,791
2007 17,352 12,632
2008 18,223 12,179
2009 18,735 11,493
2010 19,392 11,078
2011 19,990 11,068
2012 20,666 11,622
2013 21,175 11,207
2014 21,386 11,008
2015 22,018 12,974
2016 22,938 14,415

2017 data from CNN (source above):

2017 23,854 14,542

2018 data from efsgv.org (source above):

2018 24,432 13,958

2019-2023 data from Gun Violence Archive (source above):

2019 23,941 15,538
2020 24,292 19,613
2021 26,328 21,068
2022 27,038 20,392
2023 24,090 18,877


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