Six countries account for half of gun deaths globally

A sweeping new analysis estimates that 251,000 people died from firearm injuries in 2016. Here’s what the study — which used autopsy, census data, police records, and other information — found.

The global rate of firearm injury deaths has decreased a little less than 1 percent each year since 1990.
Half of the 2016 firearm deaths occurred in just six countries in the Americas: Brazil, the U.S., Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and Guatemala.
In 2016, 64 percent of global firearm deaths were homicides, 27 percent were suicides, and 9 percent were accidental injuries.