The United States of America is commonly known as the United States or simply known as America. The United States is a country of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions. In the United States, an estimate of 16,214 people were murdered in 2018 according to the data we have collected from the FBI. With FBI’s 2018 Crime in the United States data, we determined the overall number of murders and the number of murders involving firearms. With this, we calculated the percentage of murders involving firearms by dividing the number of murders involving firearms by the overall number of murders, and categorized them into a high number of murders with a high percentage of murders, high number of murders with a low percentage of murders, low number of murders with a high percentage of murders, and a low number of murders with a low percentage of murders across states on the US mainland.
Data 1: Number of Murders 2018
Data 2: Percentage of Murders Involving Firearms 2018
Data 3: Correlation 2018