Firearm death rate
Deaths from firearm injuries of any intent (suicide, homicide, unintentional, legal intervention or undetermined) per 100,000 residents, age-adjusted to the 2000 US standard population. Deaths are counted by the state of residence. NCHS National Vital Statistics System final death data.
Available for US states and DC. Age adjustment allows states with older or younger populations to be compared; the rate is not the number of deaths divided by the population.
Key facts
- Mississippi had the highest firearm death rate of 51 states in 2024, at 28 per 100,000 people, and Hawaii the lowest, at 3.7 per 100,000 people. Source: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Published for 51 places, with figures from 2005 to 2024.
Rankings
US states by firearm death rate, 2024
Places with data
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Utah
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Oklahoma
Use this data in your AI agent
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Which places have the highest firearm death rate? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"firearm_death_rate","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=firearm_death_rate&level=region&within=United%20States