(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) The United States has seen over 1 million firearm fatalities
over the past 30 years, according to a new study, trend reports citing
xinhua .
There were roughly 1,110,000 deaths related to firearms --
nearly 86 percent of them among males -- in the country from 1990
to 2021, according to the study, which was recently published in
the JAMA Network Open, an open-access medical journal published by
the American Medical Association.
The findings also showed that firearm deaths reached a low in
2004 of about 10 for every 100,000 people in the United States.
The rate began to climb back up in 2010, eventually increasing
by 45.5 percent to 14.7 firearm deaths per 100,000 people in
2021.
The study also underlined disparities in firearm fatality rates
by racial and ethnic group, and these disparities increased in
recent years.
Homicides were most common among Black non-Hispanic men aged 20
to 40 years and suicides among White non-Hispanic men aged 70 years
or older.
Additionally, annual firearm suicide rates among females
increased since 2010, according to the findings.
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