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No single number for “ through 2025” can be confidently extracted from the reporting provided here, because the supplied sources describe the surveillance systems, modeling efforts, and caveats about ...
Data from recent reporting and research show clear racial disparities in U.S. homicide victimization and offending: in 2023 FBI counts reported higher absolute numbers of white offenders than Black of...
Homicide rates per 100,000 in the U.S. have shown persistent and large racial disparities over roughly the last 20–30 years: Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations—especially youn...
The United States records roughly 1,500 knife homicides per year, meaning knife killings are a minority of U.S. homicides while firearms dominate U.S. lethal violence — firearms account for about 79–8...
The sharpest available analyses show that Washington, D.C. had the highest age‑adjusted firearm homicide rate in recent comparative data (about 14.4 per 100,000), while Wyoming led the nation in firea...
Statista’s 2024 state ranking lists Mississippi as having the highest gun‑violence rate per 100,000 residents (29.7), followed by Louisiana (28.2); Statista’s summary also lists New Mexico, Alabama an...
Available data and multiple cross-country studies show the United States has substantially higher homicide and many violent‑crime rates than the European Union and most Western European countries; for...
There is no single, authoritative count of global for calendar year 2024 or for 2025 “so far” in the reporting provided: aggregates reported case data annually from country submissions and publishes u...
No single, definitive country can be named from the set of sources provided as having the absolute lowest gun-homicide rate in 2025; the datasets that would identify a global minimum are referenced (U...
State-level mask and school-mask policies were one piece of a complex puzzle that shaped regional excess mortality during 2020–2022: targeted analyses find that and school masking reduced transmission...
When homicide victim–offender patterns are read as raw counts, appear disproportionately represented among victims and offenders; when those same figures are adjusted to per‑capita and age‑standardize...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) has shaped global research priorities by concentrating huge philanthropic resources on infectious disease, maternal and child health, vaccines, and technolog...
Recent large-scale estimates (GBD 2021 / Lancet Psychiatry re-analysis) place tropical Latin America’s autism prevalence at about 614.5 per 100,000 (≈1 in 163), substantially lower than some high-inco...