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GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2023

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: December 05, 2023

Total Number of GV Deaths - ALL Causes⁴
39,939
Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
17,565
Suicide³
22,374
Total Number of Injuries¹
34,081
Mass Shootings²
630
Mass Murders²
38
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 272
Injured 607
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 1,299
Injured 3,667
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 46
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 347
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 1,331
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 739
Defensive Use²
1,101
Unintentional Shooting²
1,462
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
628

Gun violence and crime incidents are collected/validated from 7,500 sources daily – Incident Reports and their source data are found at the gunviolencearchive.org website.

Footnotes

Number of source verified deaths and injuries
Number of INCIDENTS reported and verified
Calculation based on CDC Suicide Data
Actual total of all non-suicide deaths plus daily calculated suicide deaths

All numbers are subject to change or incidents recategorized as new evidence is established and verified.

METHODOLOGY & DEFINITIONS AVAILABLE AT:
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology

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Data Sources Verified: December 03, 2023