미국에서 총 맞아 죽는 사람 비율은? Gun homicides in are about as common as deaths from in the United States
100만명당 31.2명
한국 0.4명의 78배
엘살바도르 446.3명으로 1위
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미국에서 총을 맞아 죽는 비율이 한국에 비해 78배가 높은 것으로 조사됐다.
미국의 질병통제예방센터(CDC)와 스위스의 민간기구인 ‘스몰 암스 서베이’의 통계자료에 따르면 미국에서 100만명당 총기 사망 인원은 31.2명인 데 비해 한국은 0.4명에 불과하다고 뉴욕타임스(NYT)가 6일(현지시간) 보도했다. 두 기관은 2007년부터 2012년까지 통계를 바탕으로 경제협력개발기구(OECD) 19개 회원국과 중국, 스코틀랜드, 엘살바도르 22개국의 사망 원인을 비교했다. 한국에서 총기로 사망하는 비율은 건물 붕괴로 압사하거나 물건에 깔려 죽는 비율과 같은 것으로 나타났다.
인구 100만명당 총기 사망사고 1위는 엘살바도르로 446.3명에 달했고, 2위는 멕시코 121.7명으로 나타났다. 미국과 사회, 문화수준이 비슷한 캐나다는 5.6명, 아일랜드 4.8명, 네덜란드 2.3명, 독일 2.1명, 프랑스 2명 등으로 미국에 비해 현저하게 낮았다. 팔레스타인과 분쟁을 겪고 있는 이스라엘에서도 총기 사망 비율은 7.5명으로 미국에 비해 낮았다.
특히 조사 대상국가 중에서 총기 사망 비율이 가장 낮은 국가는 일본으로 0.1명에 그쳤다. 일본에서 총기로 사망할 확률은 미국에서 비행기 추락사고로 죽는 비율과 비슷했다.
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Gun homicides in are about as common as deaths from in the United States.
Deaths per million people
By Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz
Two young campers were sleeping in Yosemite Valley this August when a tree branch snapped and fell on their tent, killing them both. “We don’t know what caused the limb to fall,” said the park’s spokeswoman, Jodi Bailey. “It seems like just a freak accident.”
Ms. Bailey was right: Being killed by a falling object is extremely rare. On average, about 680 Americans each year die this way, or about two people per million. The accident was seen as so unusual that it became national news, covered by CNN, The Los Angeles Times, MSN and The Daily Beast.
Yet in other developed countries, there is another cause of death that is just as rare: homicide by gun.
A Grim News Playbook in Repeated Mass KillingsDEC. 4, 2015 In Germany, for example, about two out of every million people are fatally shot by another person each year — making such events as uncommon there as the campers’ deaths in Yosemite. Gun homicides are just as rare in several other European countries, including the Netherlands and Austria. In the United States, two per million is roughly the death rate for hypothermia or plane crashes.
In Poland and England, only about one out of every million people die in gun homicides each year — about as often as an American dies in an agricultural accident or falling from a ladder. In Japan, where gun homicides are even rarer, the likelihood of dying this way is about the same as an American’s chance of being killed by lightning — roughly one in 10 million.
In the United States, the death rate from gun homicides is about 31 per million people, which is similar to the rate at which Americans die in car accidents (not including van, truck, bus or motorcycle accidents). The homicides include losses from mass shootings, like those Wednesday in San Bernardino, Calif., and the week before in Colorado Springs. And of course, they also include the country’s vastly more common single-victim killings.
These comparisons help highlight how exceptional the United States is. Here, where the right to bear arms is cherished by much of the population, gun homicides are a significant public health concern. For men 15 to 29, they are the third leading cause of death, after accidents and suicides. In other high-income countries, gun homicides are unusual events. The recent Paris attacks killed 130 people, which is nearly as many as die from gun homicides in all of France in a typical year. But even if France had a mass shooting as deadly as the Paris attacks every month, its annual rate of gun homicide death would be lower than that in the United States.
The accompanying table shows the mortality rates for gun homicides in a variety of countries, along with a correspondingly likely cause of death in the United States.
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