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Advance
Data From Vital and Health Statistics |
Firearm and Motor Vehicle Injury Mortality - Variations by State, Race, and Ethnicity: United States, 1990-91
Advance Data 242. This report presents the most recent numbers for firearm mortality and motor vehicle deaths within the United States. Comparisons are made within States for persons of all races in 1991, and within States for racial and ethnic populations for 1990-91. The extent to which homicide and suicide contribute to firearm deaths is also examined for various racial and ethnic groups. In addition, this report includes an analysis of State-, race-, and ethnic-specific firearm and motor vehicle death rates for persons 15-34 years of age.
Data Highlights:
In 1991, motor vehicles
were responsible for more injury deaths than any other cause of injury. Firearms were the
second leading cause of injury death.
Death rates for motor vehicles and
for firearm injuries have been converging in recent years as a result of declines in the
former and increases in the latter. If the trends observed from the late 1960's through
1991 continue, firearms will claim more lives than motor vehicles very early in the next
decade.
From 1988 through 1991, the firearm
death rates for persons 15-24 years of age increased 40 percent to 28.9 per 100,000
population.
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This page last reviewed
January 11, 2007
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