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MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep
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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Quick Stats
QuickStats: Percentage of Suicides* and Homicides† Involving a Firearm Among Persons Aged ≥10 Years, by Age Group — United States, 2022
Reported by: Matthew F. Garnett, MPH, Mgarnett@cdc.gov; Sally C. Curtin, MA.
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pmcIn 2022, among persons aged ≥10 years, the percentage of suicide deaths involving a firearm was lowest among persons aged 25–44 years (47.4%) and highest among persons aged ≥65 years (70.6%). The percentage of homicide deaths that involved a firearm was highest among persons aged 10–24 years and then decreased with age, from 92.2% among those aged 10–24 years to 44.5% among those aged ≥65 years.

Supplementary Table: https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/160513
Source: National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2022. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm

For more information on this topic, CDC recommends the following links: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide and https://www.cdc.gov/firearm-violence/about/index.html.

Abbreviation: ICD-10 = International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision.

* Suicide was identified using ICD-10 underlying cause-of-death codes U03, X60–X84, and Y87.0. Firearm-involved suicide was identified using ICD-10 underlying cause-of-death codes X72–X74.

† Homicide was identified using ICD-10 underlying cause-of-death codes U01–U02, X85–Y09, and Y87.1. Firearm-involved homicide was identified using ICD-10 underlying cause-of-death codes U01.4 and X93–X95.
