U.S. gun deaths rate is an outlier

Topic

Statistical Visualization / guns, mortality

If you look at gun death rates for other western countries and adjust for population, the United States is a sore-thumb outlier. Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz for the Upshot report.

Gun death rates

Be sure to look at the headline for a few seconds (if you’re on a desktop). It changes to provide different baselines to compare the US rate against.

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