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GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2023

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: December 11, 2023

Total Number of GV Deaths - ALL Causes⁴
40,597
Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
17,827
Suicide³
22,770
Total Number of Injuries¹
34,552
Mass Shootings²
636
Mass Murders²
40
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 280
Injured 608
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 1,318
Injured 3,703
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 46
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 355
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 1,357
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 756
Defensive Use²
1,123
Unintentional Shooting²
1,483
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
637

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 09, 2023