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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...