{"id":6424,"date":"2022-05-13T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2022-05-13T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-13T15:30:00","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-suicides-and-homicides-involving-a-firearm-among-persons-aged-%e2%89%a510-years-by-age-group-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/05\/13\/6424\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Suicides and Homicides\u00a0Involving a Firearm Among Persons Aged \u226510 Years, by Age Group \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7119a5-F.gif?_=78711\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"179\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, among persons aged \u226510 years, the percentage of suicide deaths that involved a firearm was lowest among those aged 25\u201344 years (45.1%) and highest among those aged \u226565 years (70.8%). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The percentage of homicide deaths that involved a firearm decreased with age, from 91.6% among those aged 10\u201324 years to 46.0% among those aged \u226565 years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Persons aged \u226565 years had the highest percentage of suicide deaths that involved a firearm but the lowest percentage of homicide deaths that involved a firearm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2020.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/deaths.htm<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7119a5.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7119a5.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020, among persons aged \u226510 years, the percentage of suicide deaths that involved a firearm was lowest among those aged 25\u201344 years (45.1%) and highest among those aged \u226565 years (70.8%). The percentage of homicide deaths that involved a firearm decreased with age, from 91.6% among those aged 10\u201324 years to 46.0% among those<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49481,62304,62348,47315,47317,53752,15995,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424"}],"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=6424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}