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The gun suicide rate among Black youth recently surpassed the rate among white youth.

Source: Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Underlying Cause of Death. Rate percentage change: 2013 to 2022. Ages 10–24. Everytown defined Black and white as non-Latinx origin.

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Every day, nearly 130 people in the United States are killed with guns, twice as many are shot and wounded, and countless others are impacted by acts of gun violence.

Everytown Research analysis of CDC, WONDER, Provisional Mortality Statistics, Multiple Cause of Death, 2020–2024; Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project nonfatal firearm injury data, 2020; and SurveyUSA, Market Research Study #26602, 2022.

Last updated: 1.15.2026