Assault or Homicide

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

Health care use

• Number of emergency department visits for assault: 1.8 million

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2008 Emergency Department Summary Table, tables 15 [PDF - 549 KB]

 

Mortality

All homicides

• Number of deaths: 16,799
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.5
• Cause of death rank: 15

Firearm homicides

• Number of deaths: 11,493
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 3.7

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2009, tables 9, 10, 11 [PDF - 1.4 MB]

 

More data

• All Injuries
• Accidental/Unintentional Injuries
• CDC WONDER-Compressed Mortality File Underlying Cause-of-Death
• CDC WONDER-Multiple Cause-of-Death Data
• Deaths: Leading Causes for 2007 [PDF - 3.7 MB]
• Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2010 [PDF - 724 KB]
• Health, United States trend tables on Injury
• Injury in the United States, 2007 Chartbook [PDF - 6.6 MB]
• Search Tables for Homicide in Health Data Interactive
• Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
• Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)