Map Showing Gun Deaths In North & Central America

Map created Landgeist

The map above shows the number of gun deaths per million people in each US and Mexican state and other countries in North and Central America, excluding suicides.

Cuba and Canada are at the bottom of the list, whereas several Mexican states are at the top.

For the US as a whole it was 44.8, but the UK the rate is 0.19.

The data for this map comes from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and is from 2021 for all ages and both sexes.

You can see the data for each cause below:

Physical violence by firearm: Being shot and killed and someone else
Unintentional firearm injuries: Being accidentally killed by a gun
Self-harm by firearm: Suicide

All of them are rates per million people.

Country/State	Physical violence by firearm	Unintentional firearm injuries	Self-harm by firearm	Total
Colima	536.23	5.76	10.93	552.92
Chihuahua	500.35	13.41	12.87	526.63
Baja California	465.46	14.95	5.06	485.47
Venezuela	402.58	35.41	29.47	467.46
Guanajuato	443.06	4.61	7.30	454.98
Michoacán	425.50	9.59	10.34	445.43
Guerrero	416.89	7.58	3.80	428.26
El Salvador	409.44	2.68	1.70	413.81
Morelos	398.97	6.63	5.41	411.00
Zacatecas	361.05	7.08	12.46	380.59
Sonora	350.07	8.35	9.62	368.05
Sinaloa	321.16	9.38	5.51	336.04
United States Virgin Islands	249.96	6.47	19.51	275.94
Oaxaca	249.64	4.61	2.97	257.22
Jalisco	225.78	4.82	7.39	237.99
Mexico	226.19	5.85	5.44	237.48
Bahamas	231.02	0.85	1.38	233.25
Nayarit	213.47	7.47	5.99	226.93
Mississippi	107.78	6.75	111.44	225.97
Guatemala	183.14	38.61	3.81	225.56
Louisiana	109.13	3.66	106.59	219.37
Colombia	204.20	1.82	7.02	213.04
Jamaica	185.06	24.02	3.74	212.82
Tamaulipas	199.17	4.01	7.13	210.31
Honduras	197.04	6.84	6.32	210.21
Quintana Roo	201.53	5.14	3.40	210.07
Alaska	45.06	9.73	148.77	203.56
Alabama	86.53	5.19	111.14	202.86
Trinidad and Tobago	191.79	2.41	2.10	196.31
New Mexico	59.63	2.35	132.36	194.34
Arkansas	65.32	4.27	123.52	193.10
Puerto Rico	176.28	2.10	10.97	189.35
Missouri	73.84	2.78	108.42	185.04
Tennessee	68.44	4.10	112.24	184.78
Wyoming	17.87	3.26	162.67	183.81
Tabasco	175.37	2.73	3.71	181.81
Mexico City	169.40	4.23	7.24	180.87
South Carolina	73.20	3.14	103.67	180.01
Durango	160.46	11.40	7.37	179.22
Oklahoma	53.85	2.80	121.46	178.11
San Luis Potosi	167.08	4.80	5.97	177.84
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave	165.50	8.93	3.40	177.82
Montana	20.20	3.11	151.08	174.39
Greenland	19.74	5.68	146.96	172.39
West Virginia	40.99	3.26	127.23	171.48
Mexico	161.23	4.58	2.99	168.80
Arizona	42.98	1.98	119.98	164.93
Puebla	157.70	3.90	3.08	164.68
Nevada	41.66	1.56	118.39	161.61
Nuevo Leon	153.38	2.66	5.16	161.20
Kentucky	44.59	4.39	111.42	160.40
District of Columbia	139.32	0.74	17.64	157.71
Georgia	62.26	2.18	93.20	157.64
Maryland	76.22	0.67	80.07	156.96
Baja California Sur	139.38	2.13	8.36	149.87
Belize	117.81	19.36	4.31	141.49
Indiana	50.38	2.27	86.50	139.15
Haiti	112.14	23.21	3.38	138.72
Colorado	26.91	1.39	109.59	137.89
Idaho	13.33	2.57	121.82	137.72
Florida	47.35	1.00	88.23	136.59
North Carolina	51.29	2.36	81.61	135.27
Kansas	33.68	2.10	97.56	133.34
Hidalgo	122.17	4.73	4.20	131.10
Saint Kitts and Nevis	107.89	21.92	0.30	130.11
Ohio	45.23	1.61	82.32	129.16
Oregon	18.64	1.50	108.25	128.38
Texas	44.74	1.98	80.84	127.56
Michigan	46.92	0.99	79.38	127.29
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	115.68	10.30	0.97	126.95
Virginia	40.87	1.37	81.11	123.35
United States of America	43.12	1.68	76.11	120.92
Dominican Republic	105.40	8.59	6.87	120.86
Coahuila	106.35	4.78	6.46	117.59
Maine	11.46	0.95	105.06	117.47
South Dakota	14.77	2.97	98.26	116.00
Pennsylvania	40.65	1.21	74.03	115.89
Vermont	12.41	1.15	102.19	115.75
Utah	13.89	0.87	98.69	113.45
Illinois	62.68	1.10	45.27	109.05
Guyana	99.36	4.21	3.47	107.05
Washington	21.56	1.01	82.46	105.03
Tlaxcala	97.07	3.36	3.05	103.48
North Dakota	12.47	1.87	88.27	102.61
Panama	97.62	1.05	2.19	100.86
Costa Rica	88.65	1.14	10.34	100.14
Delaware	38.17	1.04	60.69	99.89
Nebraska	19.78	2.11	77.61	99.50
Wisconsin	23.82	1.14	73.84	98.80
Chiapas	90.80	5.71	1.49	98.00
Saint Lucia	82.92	12.09	1.61	96.62
New Hampshire	9.71	0.91	82.86	93.48
Campeche	84.61	3.22	5.30	93.14
Querétaro	81.93	2.45	4.43	88.81
Iowa	13.52	1.28	72.52	87.33
California	36.29	0.99	45.70	82.98
Minnesota	16.36	0.92	64.49	81.77
Aguascalientes	62.11	2.72	4.78	69.61
Connecticut	21.46	1.00	36.27	58.73
Barbados	41.34	5.33	2.29	48.96
Suriname	34.17	6.25	8.43	48.85
New York	22.06	0.63	25.98	48.67
New Jersey	23.78	0.59	21.74	46.12
Hawaii	12.48	0.73	31.95	45.16
Nicaragua	37.64	4.12	2.78	44.55
Rhode Island	14.27	0.30	29.09	43.66
Antigua and Barbuda	12.64	29.66	0.25	42.54
Massachusetts	14.16	0.39	21.96	36.51
Yucatán	29.98	2.38	2.54	34.90
Dominica	29.12	4.16	1.00	34.28
Canada	5.67	0.47	18.58	24.72
Bermuda	13.76	0.94	0.30	15.00
Grenada	4.86	8.64	0.08	13.58
Cuba	4.25	1.40	2.97	8.62