{"id":7674,"date":"2024-09-20T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2024-09-19T17:13:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T17:13:32","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-suicides-and-homicides-involving-a-firearm-among-persons-aged-%e2%89%a510-years-by-age-group-united-states-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2024\/09\/20\/7674\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Suicides and Homicides Involving a Firearm Among Persons Aged \u226510 Years, by Age Group \u2014 United States, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/figures\/mm7337a3-F.gif?_=70314\" width=\"432\" height=\"284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, among persons aged \u226510 years, the percentage of suicide deaths involving a firearm was lowest among persons aged 25\u201344 years (47.4%) and highest among persons aged \u226565 years (70.6%).<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of homicide deaths that involved a firearm was highest among persons aged 10\u201324 years and then decreased with age, from 92.2% among those aged 10\u201324 years to 44.5% among those aged \u226565 years.<\/p>\n<p><b>Supplementary Table:<\/b>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/160513\">https:\/\/stacks.cdc.gov\/view\/cdc\/160513<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Mortality Data, 2022.\u00a0<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\/73\/wr\/mm7337a3.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7337a3.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2022, among persons aged \u226510 years, the percentage of suicide deaths involving a firearm was lowest among persons aged 25\u201344 years (47.4%) and highest among persons aged \u226565 years (70.6%). The percentage of homicide deaths that involved a firearm was highest among persons aged 10\u201324 years and then decreased with age, from 92.2% among<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62304,63673],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7677,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions\/7677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}