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GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE 2023

Evidence Based Research - since 2013 PUBLISHED DATE: December 30, 2023

Total Number of GV Deaths - ALL Causes⁴
42,732
Homicide/Murder/Unintentional/DGU¹
18,708
Suicide³
24,024
Total Number of Injuries¹
36,069
Mass Shootings²
650
Mass Murders²
40
Number of Children (age 0-11)¹
Killed 293
Injured 636
Number of Teens (age 12-17)¹
Killed 1,370
Injured 3,852
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 49
Officer Killed or Injured
Injured 367
Officer Involved Incident¹
Killed 1,436
Subject-Suspect Killed or Injured
Injured 797
Defensive Use²
1,178
Unintentional Shooting²
1,556
Murder/Suicides Incidents²
672

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 28, 2023