Assault or Homicide
(Data are for the U.S.)
Health care use
- Number of emergency department visits for assault: 1.8 million
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 - 2.1 MB]
More data
- All Injuries
- Accidental/Unintentional Injuries
- CDC WONDER-Multiple Cause-of-Death Data
- CDC WONDER - Underlying Cause of Death
- Deaths: Leading Causes for 2008 [PDF - 2.8 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]
- NCHS Fact Sheet - NCHS Data on Injuries
- Search Tables for Homicide in Health Data Interactive
- Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
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