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Firearm-Related Deaths: National and State-Level Data
January 19, 2017
Michelle Aurelius, MD
Alison Miller, MA
The North Carolina Medical Examiner System
• OCME investigates sudden, violent, and unexpected deaths in North Carolina. • Accident
• Homicide
• Natural
• Suicide
• OCME investigates 12,000 deaths per year.• Approximately 14% of the total number of deaths in North Carolina
• OCME collects data from autopsy reports, death certificates, investigation reports, and toxicology reports.• OCME data can be used to:
• Identify trends
• Inform public health initiatives
• Develop prevention strategies
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Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States
Source: www.everytownresearch.org (2015)
This number increased to 99 per day in 2015!
Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States, 2005 – 2015
There were 356,831 firearm-related deaths from 2005 to 2015. Of these deaths, 212,770 were suicides.
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Suicide59.6%
Homicide36.5%
Accident1.8%
Undetermined0.8%
Other1.2%
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999 – 2015: CDC WONDER online database. Analysis by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Gender % Total Rate per 100,000
Male 86.1 18.4
Female 13.9 2.9
TOTAL 100% 10.5
Race % Total Rate per 100,000
White 73.1 9.7
Black 24.5 18.9
Asian 1.4 2.6
American Indian 1.0 7.5
TOTAL 100% 10.5
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2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
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Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States, 2005 – 2015
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999 – 2015: CDC WONDER online database. Analysis by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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• There were 36,252 firearm-related deaths in 2015.
• Highest Rates of Firearm-Related Deaths (All Manners of Death) • Alaska (24.0 per 100,000)
• Louisiana (20.4)
• Montana (19.8)
• Alabama (19.7)
• Mississippi (19.7)
• Highest Numbers of Firearm-Related Deaths (All Manners of Death)• Texas (3,203)
• California (3,095)
• Florida (2,559)
• Pennsylvania (1,485)
• Georgia (1,448)
• North Carolina ranked 21st in the nation with a rate of 12.8 per 100,000.
Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States, 2015
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics. December 2016.
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Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States, 2015
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics. December 2016.
Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States, 2015
There were 22,018 suicides in 2015. Homicides represented the second largest group with 12,968 deaths.
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Suicide60.7%
Homicide35.8%
Accident1.3%
Undetermined0.8%
Other1.3%
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999 – 2015: CDC WONDER online database. Analysis by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Gender % Total Rate per 100,000
Male 85.6 19.6
Female 14.4 3.2
TOTAL 100% 11.3
Race % Total Rate per 100,000
White 72.5 10.4
Black 25.0 20.2
Asian 1.5 2.7
American Indian 1.1 8.4
TOTAL 100% 11.3
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Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States by Age Group, 2015
Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States, 2015
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics. Multiple Cause of Death Files, 1999 – 2015: CDC WONDER online database. Analysis by the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
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Firearm-Related Deaths in North Carolina
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Source: North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (2016)
There were 719 firearm-related deaths in North Carolina in the first 6 months of 2016. Of these deaths, 437 were suicides.
2016 PROVISIONAL DATA
Firearm-Related Deaths in North Carolina
Accident1.1%
Homicide36.4%
Suicide60.8%
Undetermined0.7%
Pending1.0%
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Source: North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (2016)
2016 PROVISIONAL DATA
Firearm-Related Deaths in North Carolina
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Firearm-Related Deaths by Gender and Manner of Death, January – June 2016
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2016 PROVISIONAL DATA
Firearm-Related Deaths in North Carolina
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Source: North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (2016)
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Firearm-Related Deaths by Race and Manner of Death, January – June 2016
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2016 PROVISIONAL DATA
Firearm-Related Deaths in North Carolina
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Source: North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (2016)
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Male 0 2 0 4 41 64 116 107 78 72 53 37 11
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Contact Information
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Data Requests
If you would like to request OCME data, please visit our website at www.ocme.dhhs.nc.gov. If you have any questions, please
contact Alison Miller at [email protected].
Michelle Aurelius, MD
Thank you!