The U.S. firearm homicide rate in 2019 was 4.11 people per 100,000, compared to 0.19 in the 27-nation European Union, according to research by the University of Washington.
"When you compare us here in this country to the European Union, we’re something like 23 times more likely for these incidents to occur here," he said during a Nov. 23We fact-checked Hayes’ statistic and found it’s essentially correct. He was referring to a May 2022published by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.
The IHME compared the 2019 murder rates from firearms — not just handguns, as Hayes said — between countries across the globe. Among the findings is that the firearm homicide rate in the U.S. was 22 times larger than in the European Union as a whole. . The U.S. firearm homicide rate in 2019 was 4.11 people per 100,000, compared to 0.19 in the 27-nation European Union. Bulgaria had the EU’s highest firearms homicide rate 0.56 per 100,000 – more than seven times lower than the U.S.
Romania had the EU’s lowest firearm homicide rate at 0.06 per 100,000 – 65 times lower than the U.S. Romanians areHere are the firearm homicide rates of several other EU nations and how they compare with the United States, according to IHME:Sweden: 0.25 per 100,000, 1/16th of the U.S,
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