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Originally Posted by OICURMT
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The NPR figures for the USA in particular are for homicides only. There's a note on the NPR chart for "How The U.S. Compares With The Lowest Rates Of Violent Gun Deaths Worldwide":
"All charts exclude deaths in armed conflict and from accidents or self-harm."
The Wikipedia data comes from a variety of sources, and the "Total" column includes justifiable homicides, suicides, and accidental fatalities. In particular, note that the number of suicides is typically several times higher than the homicides, and then there's also the "unintentional" and "undetermined" deaths, which are also (unsurprisingly) significantly higher in countries with high levels of gun ownership.
However, I think the NPR might have made a mistake on some of their graphs - I think they have plotted the USA figure of homicides only, but some of the others are apparently the total gun-related death figures. Comparing statistics across countries can be difficult, because not all countries will keep accurate statistics for all classifications.
The take-away message in the NPR report is in the last paragraph:
"One more way to consider this data: The IHME also estimates what it would expect a country's rate of gun violence deaths to be based solely on its socioeconomic status. By that measure, the U.S. should only be seeing .79 deaths per 100,000 people — almost five times less than its actual rate of 3.85 deaths per 100,000."