A data set containing gun ownership rates and homicide rates for 2017 for various countries around the world. The gun ownership rates are the number of guns owned by civilians per 100 people. The homicide rates are the number of homicides per 100,000 people where the weapon was a firearm.
Format
A data frame with 77 rows and 4 columns:
- country
Country name
- region
World region according to Our World in Data
- gun_ownership_rate
Gun ownership rate (number of guns owned by civilians per 100 people)
- homicide_rate
Homicide rate (number of homicides per 100,000 people where the weapon was a firearm)
Source
World Population Review https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gun-ownership-by-country and https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rates-from-firearms
Examples
gun_deaths
#> # A tibble: 77 × 4
#> country region gun_ownership_rate homicide_rate
#> <chr> <chr> <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 Albania Europe 12 1.52
#> 2 Algeria Africa 2.1 0.127
#> 3 Antigua and Barbuda North America 5.4 11.1
#> 4 Argentina South America 7.4 2.81
#> 5 Armenia Asia 6.1 0.618
#> 6 Australia Oceania 14.5 0.0930
#> 7 Austria Europe 30 0.182
#> 8 Azerbaijan Asia 3.6 0.181
#> 9 Bahamas North America 18.8 27.4
#> 10 Barbados North America 3.5 8.21
#> # ℹ 67 more rows