Instead, we show them as a way to help think meaningfully about the differences among gun death rates. The United States death rates come from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over those same years. Around the world, those countries have substantially lower rates of deaths from gun homicide. Our gun homicide numbers come from the Small Arms Survey, a Swiss nonprofit affiliated with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and represent the average gun homicide death rates in those countries between 2007 and 2012. In parts of Central America, Africa and the Middle East, the gun death rates are even higher — close to those from heart attacks and lung cancer in the United States.

Source: New York Times June 13, 2016 16:33 UTC