Putting America’s Gun Violence in Perspective — Chart 7

America Not the Only ‘Developed’ Nation with Mass Shooting Problem

Below is a chart of mass shooting statistics, when corrected for population. It shows that the U.S. has comparable frequency to other nations when accounting for its large population size (0.72 fatalities per 1,000,000 population). [Archived data based on OECD and other statistics can be found here.]

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Via IJR