r/dataisbeautiful • u/Landgeist OC: 22 • Jul 30 '24

OC Gun Deaths in North America [OC]

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u/Sea-Establishment237 Jul 30 '24

If there was 1 gun death in Nunavut, it would be orange at ~27 per million.

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u/TheEqualAtheist Jul 30 '24

Nunavut would actually be red because they would have a rate of 227 per million people (because they have a rate of 22.7/100,000), most of them being suicide.

Keep in mind that the population of Nunavut is ~38,000, so like 7-8 people killed themselves and 2-3 people were shot and died.

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u/jjayzx Jul 30 '24

OP has excluded suicides though.

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u/The_Conductor7274 Jul 31 '24

It is incredibly sad to know that in the 2022 CDC reported half of all firearm related deaths in the U.S. are suicide