Table 1

Firearm deaths in a one year period in 52 countries, mid-1990s

Manner of deathMalesFemalesBoth sexes
Countries which contributed data for one year in the early-to-mid 1990s (but not always the same year), were Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Mongolia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Portugal, the Republic of Moldova, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay.
Source: WHO World Health Report database.3
Homicides72216710479320
Suicides25359318028539
Undetermined44665385004
Accidental24522782730
Total10449311100115593