10.7910/DVN/T7B1DGNational Center for Health StatisticsCDCHarvard Dataverse2025Medicine, Health and Life SciencesSocial SciencesCAFEAllison JamesAllisonJamesBoston University2025-03-212025-03-31Extracted Data327902204798410959114402text/tab-separated-valuesmultipart/relatedapplication/pdfapplication/pdf2.0CC BY-NC-SA 4.0This submission includes publicly available data extracted in its original form. Please reference the Related Publication listed here for source and citation information: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. National Vital Statistics System, Mortality 2018-2023 on CDC WONDER Online Database, released in 2024. <br /><br /> If you have questions about the underlying data stored here, please call 301-458-4800 or e-mail at paoquery@cdc.gov. If you have questions or recommendations related to this metadata entry and extracted data, please contact the CAFE Data Management team at: climatecafe@bu.edu. <br /><br /> "Number of deaths and age-adjusted death rates from firearm-related fatalities. States are categorized from highest rate to lowest rate. Although adjusted for differences in age-distribution and population size, rankings by state do not take into account other state specific population characteristics that may affect the level of mortality. When the number of deaths is small, rankings by state may be unreliable due to instability in death rates." This dataset includes firearms mortality by state and year from 2005 to 2022. Taken from "Stats of the States", NCHS. <br /> [Quote from: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/stats_of_the_states.htm]Terms and conditions were captured directly from CDC and are pasted below: "The information provided using this website is only intended to be general summary information to the public. It is not intended to take the place of either the written law or regulations."This submission includes publicly available data extracted in its original form. Please reference the Related Publication listed here for source and citation information. Firearm Mortality by State data was downloaded by Urvi Vinod on 2025-03-21.