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Correlation Of Murders With Gun Ownership? | Yes – weakly negative! (inverse relationship) | |||||||
Country | Murders | Rank | Guns | Rank | Correlation Coefficients | |||
Afghanistan | 2.4 | 114 | 4.6 | 102 | -0.3410 | Spearman's rho | ||
Albania | 4.0 | 92 | 8.6 | 67 | -0.2264 | Pearson's r | ||
Algeria | 1.5 | 134 | 7.6 | 75 | ||||
Angola | 19.0 | 33 | 17.3 | 32 | ||||
Argentina | 3.4 | 97 | 10.2 | 60 | In layman's terms | |||
Armenia | 1.4 | 139 | 12.5 | 50 | These statistics show that having more guns | |||
Australia | 1.0 | 152 | 15.0 | 40 | within a country's borders does not lead | |||
Austria | 0.6 | 168 | 30.4 | 14 | to an increase in the murder rate – | |||
Azerbaijan | 2.2 | 117 | 3.5 | 111 | In fact, there is a defined correlation between | |||
Bahamas | 27.4 | 17 | 5.3 | 94 | having more guns and a lower murder rate. | |||
Bahrain | 0.6 | 169 | 24.8 | 18 | ||||
Bangladesh | 2.7 | 110 | 0.5 | 165 | Charts | |||
Barbados | 11.3 | 56 | 7.8 | 73 | A scattergram of each analysis is also | |||
Belarus | 4.9 | 83 | 7.3 | 76 | included with the trendline having the | |||
Belgium | 1.7 | 128 | 17.2 | 34 | highest coefficient of determination. | |||
Belize | 41.4 | 6 | 10.0 | 61 | ||||
Benin | 15.1 | 43 | 1.4 | 133 | ||||
Bhutan | 1.0 | 153 | 3.5 | 112 | ||||
Bolivia | 8.9 | 64 | 2.8 | 115 | ||||
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1.5 | 135 | 17.3 | 33 | ||||
Botswana | 14.5 | 46 | 4.9 | 98 | ||||
Brazil | 21.0 | 27 | 8.0 | 72 | ||||
Brunei | 0.5 | 171 | 1.4 | 134 | ||||
Bulgaria | 2.0 | 123 | 6.2 | 86 | ||||
Burkina Faso | 18.0 | 35 | 1.1 | 145 | ||||
Burundi | 21.7 | 24 | 1.2 | 141 | ||||
Cambodia | 3.4 | 98 | 4.3 | 105 | ||||
Cameroon | 19.7 | 32 | 2.8 | 116 | ||||
Canada | 1.6 | 131 | 30.8 | 13 | ||||
Cape Verde | 11.6 | 54 | 5.4 | 92 | ||||
Central African Republic | 29.3 | 16 | 1.0 | 149 | ||||
Chad | 15.8 | 39 | 1.1 | 146 | ||||
Chile | 3.2 | 102 | 10.7 | 57 | ||||
China | 1.0 | 154 | 4.9 | 99 | ||||
Colombia | 31.0 | 14 | 5.9 | 88 | ||||
Comoros | 12.2 | 52 | 1.8 | 123 | ||||
Congo | 30.8 | 15 | 2.7 | 118 | ||||
Costa Rica | 10.0 | 63 | 9.9 | 62 | ||||
Côte d'Ivoire | 56.9 | 3 | 2.4 | 120 | ||||
Croatia | 1.4 | 140 | 21.7 | 25 | ||||
Cuba | 5.0 | 82 | 4.8 | 100 | ||||
Cyprus | 1.7 | 129 | 36.4 | 6 | ||||
Czech Republic | 1.7 | 130 | 16.3 | 36 | ||||
Democratic Republic of the Congo | 21.7 | 25 | 1.4 | 135 | ||||
Denmark | 0.9 | 158 | 12.0 | 52 | ||||
Djibouti | 3.4 | 99 | 2.8 | 117 | ||||
Dominican Republic | 25.0 | 18 | 5.1 | 95 | ||||
Ecuador | 15.2 | 41 | 1.3 | 138 | ||||
Egypt | 1.2 | 143 | 3.5 | 113 | ||||
El Salvador | 69.2 | 2 | 5.8 | 89 | ||||
Equatorial Guinea | 20.7 | 28 | 19.9 | 28 | ||||
Eritrea | 17.8 | 36 | 0.5 | 166 | ||||
Estonia | 5.2 | 80 | 9.2 | 63 | ||||
Ethiopia | 22.5 | 22 | 0.4 | 170 | ||||
Fiji | 2.8 | 108 | 0.5 | 167 | ||||
Finland | 2.2 | 118 | 45.3 | 4 | ||||
France | 1.1 | 148 | 31.2 | 12 | ||||
Gabon | 13.8 | 48 | 14.0 | 44 | ||||
Gambia | 10.8 | 58 | 0.8 | 153 | ||||
Georgia | 4.3 | 88 | 7.3 | 77 | ||||
Germany | 0.8 | 162 | 30.3 | 15 | ||||
Ghana | 15.7 | 40 | 0.4 | 171 | ||||
Greece | 1.5 | 136 | 22.5 | 23 | ||||
Guatemala | 38.5 | 7 | 13.1 | 47 | ||||
Guinea | 22.5 | 23 | 1.2 | 142 | ||||
Guinea-Bissau | 20.2 | 29 | 1.6 | 125 | ||||
Guyana | 18.6 | 34 | 14.6 | 43 | ||||
Haiti | 6.9 | 75 | 0.6 | 160 | ||||
Honduras | 91.6 | 1 | 6.2 | 87 | ||||
Hungary | 1.3 | 142 | 5.5 | 90 | ||||
Iceland | 0.3 | 173 | 30.3 | 16 | ||||
India | 3.4 | 100 | 4.2 | 106 | ||||
Indonesia | 8.1 | 70 | 0.5 | 168 | ||||
Iran | 3.0 | 106 | 7.3 | 78 | ||||
Iraq | 2.0 | 124 | 34.2 | 8 | ||||
Ireland | 1.2 | 144 | 8.6 | 68 | ||||
Israel | 2.1 | 121 | 7.3 | 79 | ||||
Italy | 0.9 | 159 | 11.9 | 53 | ||||
Jamaica | 52.2 | 4 | 8.1 | 71 | ||||
Japan | 0.4 | 172 | 0.6 | 161 | ||||
Jordan | 1.8 | 127 | 11.5 | 56 | ||||
Kazakhstan | 8.8 | 65 | 1.3 | 139 | ||||
Kenya | 20.1 | 30 | 6.4 | 84 | ||||
Kuwait | 2.2 | 119 | 24.8 | 19 | ||||
Kyrgyzstan | 20.1 | 31 | 0.9 | 152 | ||||
Laos | 4.6 | 86 | 1.2 | 143 | ||||
Latvia | 3.1 | 104 | 19.0 | 30 | ||||
Lebanon | 2.2 | 120 | 21.0 | 27 | ||||
Lesotho | 35.2 | 11 | 2.7 | 119 | ||||
Liberia | 10.1 | 62 | 1.6 | 126 | ||||
Libya | 2.9 | 107 | 15.5 | 38 | ||||
Lithuania | 6.6 | 77 | 0.7 | 156 | ||||
Luxembourg | 2.5 | 112 | 15.3 | 39 | ||||
Macedonia | 1.9 | 126 | 24.1 | 20 | ||||
Madagascar | 8.1 | 71 | 0.8 | 154 | ||||
Malawi | 36.0 | 10 | 0.7 | 157 | ||||
Malaysia | 2.3 | 115 | 1.5 | 129 | ||||
Maldives | 1.6 | 132 | 6.5 | 83 | ||||
Mali | 8.0 | 72 | 1.1 | 147 | ||||
Malta | 1.0 | 155 | 11.9 | 54 | ||||
Mauritania | 14.7 | 45 | 1.6 | 127 | ||||
Mauritius | 2.5 | 113 | 14.7 | 42 | ||||
Mexico | 22.7 | 21 | 15.0 | 41 | ||||
Moldova | 7.5 | 74 | 7.1 | 80 | ||||
Mongolia | 8.7 | 67 | 1.9 | 122 | ||||
Montenegro | 3.5 | 96 | 23.1 | 21 | ||||
Morocco | 1.4 | 141 | 5.0 | 97 | ||||
Mozambique | 8.8 | 66 | 5.1 | 96 | ||||
Myanmar | 10.2 | 60 | 4.0 | 107 | ||||
Namibia | 17.2 | 37 | 12.6 | 49 | ||||
Nepal | 2.8 | 109 | 0.8 | 155 | ||||
Netherlands | 1.1 | 149 | 3.9 | 108 | ||||
New Zealand | 0.9 | 160 | 22.6 | 22 | ||||
Nicaragua | 13.6 | 49 | 7.7 | 74 | ||||
Niger | 3.8 | 93 | 0.7 | 158 | ||||
Nigeria | 12.2 | 53 | 1.5 | 130 | ||||
North Korea | 15.2 | 42 | 0.6 | 162 | ||||
Norway | 0.6 | 170 | 31.3 | 11 | ||||
Oman | 0.7 | 165 | 25.5 | 17 | ||||
Pakistan | 7.8 | 73 | 11.6 | 55 | ||||
Palestine | 4.1 | 91 | 3.4 | 114 | ||||
Panama | 21.6 | 26 | 21.7 | 26 | ||||
Papua New Guinea | 13.0 | 50 | 1.2 | 144 | ||||
Paraguay | 11.5 | 55 | 17.0 | 35 | ||||
Peru | 10.3 | 59 | 18.8 | 31 | ||||
Philippines | 5.4 | 79 | 4.7 | 101 | ||||
Poland | 1.1 | 150 | 1.3 | 140 | ||||
Portugal | 1.2 | 145 | 8.5 | 69 | ||||
Qatar | 0.9 | 161 | 19.2 | 29 | ||||
Romania | 2.0 | 125 | 0.7 | 159 | ||||
Russia | 10.2 | 61 | 8.9 | 65 | ||||
Rwanda | 17.1 | 38 | 0.6 | 163 | ||||
Saudi Arabia | 1.0 | 156 | 35.0 | 7 | ||||
Senegal | 8.7 | 68 | 2.0 | 121 | ||||
Serbia | 1.2 | 146 | 37.8 | 5 | ||||
Seychelles | 8.3 | 69 | 5.4 | 93 | ||||
Sierra Leone | 14.9 | 44 | 0.6 | 164 | ||||
Singapore | 0.3 | 174 | 0.5 | 169 | ||||
Slovakia | 1.5 | 137 | 8.3 | 70 | ||||
Slovenia | 0.7 | 166 | 13.5 | 45 | ||||
Solomon Islands | 3.7 | 94 | 0.4 | 172 | ||||
Somalia | 1.5 | 138 | 9.1 | 64 | ||||
South Africa | 31.8 | 13 | 12.7 | 48 | ||||
South Korea | 2.6 | 111 | 1.1 | 148 | ||||
Spain | 0.8 | 163 | 10.4 | 59 | ||||
Sri Lanka | 3.6 | 95 | 1.5 | 131 | ||||
Sudan | 24.2 | 20 | 5.5 | 91 | ||||
Suriname | 4.6 | 87 | 13.4 | 46 | ||||
Swaziland | 12.9 | 51 | 6.4 | 85 | ||||
Sweden | 1.0 | 157 | 31.6 | 10 | ||||
Switzerland | 0.7 | 167 | 45.7 | 3 | ||||
Syria | 2.3 | 116 | 3.9 | 109 | ||||
Taiwan | 3.2 | 103 | 4.6 | 103 | ||||
Tajikistan | 2.1 | 122 | 1.0 | 150 | ||||
Tanzania | 24.5 | 19 | 1.4 | 136 | ||||
Thailand | 4.8 | 84 | 15.6 | 37 | ||||
Timor-Leste | 6.9 | 76 | 0.3 | 173 | ||||
Togo | 10.9 | 57 | 1.0 | 151 | ||||
Trinidad And Tobago | 35.2 | 12 | 1.6 | 128 | ||||
Tunisia | 1.1 | 151 | 0.1 | 174 | ||||
Turkey | 3.3 | 101 | 12.5 | 51 | ||||
Turkmenistan | 4.2 | 89 | 3.8 | 110 | ||||
Uganda | 36.3 | 9 | 1.4 | 137 | ||||
Ukraine | 5.2 | 81 | 6.6 | 81 | ||||
United Arab Emirates | 0.8 | 164 | 22.1 | 24 | ||||
United Kingdom | 1.2 | 147 | 6.6 | 82 | ||||
United States | 4.8 | 85 | 88.8 | 1 | ||||
Uruguay | 5.9 | 78 | 31.8 | 9 | ||||
Uzbekistan | 3.1 | 105 | 1.5 | 132 | ||||
Venezuela | 45.1 | 5 | 10.7 | 58 | ||||
Vietnam | 1.6 | 133 | 1.7 | 124 | ||||
Yemen | 4.2 | 90 | 54.8 | 2 | ||||
Zambia | 38 | 8 | 8.9 | 66 | ||||
Zimbabwe | 14.3 | 47 | 4.6 | 104 |