{"id":6151,"date":"2021-10-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2021-10-22T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T15:00:00","slug":"quickstats-age-adjusted-rates-of-firearm-related-homicide-by-race-hispanic-origin-and-sex-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2021\/10\/22\/6151\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats:\u00a0Age-Adjusted Rates of Firearm-Related Homicide\u00a0by Race, Hispanic Origin, and Sex \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"order-4 w-100\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6153\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/mm7042a6-f.gif\" alt=\"mm7042a6-f\" width=\"443\" height=\"292\"><\/p>\n<p>In 2019, among males, non-Hispanic Black males had the highest age-adjusted rate of firearm-related homicide at 34.9 per 100,000 population and non-Hispanic Asian\/Pacific Islander males had the lowest rate (1.6).<\/p>\n<p>Among females, non-Hispanic Black females had the highest rate (4.1) and non-Hispanic Asian\/Pacific Islander females had the lowest rate (0.5).<\/p>\n<p>Males had higher rates than females across all race and Hispanic origin groups.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>&nbsp;National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2019.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7042a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/mm7042a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"order-4\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019, among males, non-Hispanic Black males had the highest age-adjusted rate of firearm-related homicide at 34.9 per 100,000 population and non-Hispanic Asian\/Pacific Islander males had the lowest rate (1.6). Among females, non-Hispanic Black females had the highest rate (4.1) and non-Hispanic Asian\/Pacific Islander females had the lowest rate (0.5). Males had higher rates than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62304,62348,47317,53752,53747,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}