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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.

Usage

gun_deaths

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)

Value

Data frame

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