They also saw the largest increase in gun-related deaths in 2020 at 39%.
In particular, Black children and adolescents were the only group that had higher gun-related deaths than motor vehicle deaths. In addition, a Washington Post analysis of CDC's data found that there were significant racial disparities when it came to gun deaths among children and adolescents. Overall, two-thirds of these gun-related deaths were homicides, 30% were suicides, 3% were accidental, and 2% were of undetermined intent. For the first time, guns overtook motor vehicle crashes, which contributed around 4,000 deaths in 2020, as the leading cause of death in this age group. Of these gun-related deaths, 4,368 occurred in children between the ages of one and 19-an almost 30% increase between 20. In total, 45,222 gun-related deaths occurred in 2020, the highest number on record.
Who dies from gunfire in the United States (and how), charted Guns become the leading cause of death for childrenįor one study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers analyzed CDC mortality data for gun-related deaths in 2020. Firearms became the leading cause of deaths for children and adolescents in the United States for the first time in 2020-and the largest increase in gun-related deaths were from suicides, according to two new studies.
