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Victims of police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by level of physical injury, Canada, 2010 to 2024

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No physical injury Physical injury Minor physical injury² Major physical injury³ Death 0 20 40 60 80 100 % Mass casualty eventsMass casualty events Violent crime¹Violent crime¹
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Includes mass casualty events. To allow for comparison with mass casualty events, incidents of violent crime are limited to those with victim records.
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Includes physical injury that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice).
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Includes physical injury that required professional medical attention at the scene or transportation to a medical facility.
Note(s):
Mass casualty events refer to violent incidents where four or more victims sustained physical injury or died. Excludes criminal negligence causing bodily harm or death. Based on the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database, which, as of 2009, includes data for 99% of the population in Canada.
Source(s):
Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database) (3302).

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This is a bar clustered chart.

Victims of police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by level of physical injury, Canada, 2010 to 2024, %
  Mass casualty events Violent crime¹
No physical injury 4.4 62.2
Physical injury 95.6 37.8
Minor physical injury² 88.3 35.5
Major physical injury³ 6.4 2.2
Death 1.0 0.2
1.
Includes mass casualty events. To allow for comparison with mass casualty events, incidents of violent crime are limited to those with victim records.
2.
Includes physical injury that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid (e.g., bandage, ice).
3.
Includes physical injury that required professional medical attention at the scene or transportation to a medical facility.
Note(s):
Mass casualty events refer to violent incidents where four or more victims sustained physical injury or died. Excludes criminal negligence causing bodily harm or death. Based on the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey, Trend Database, which, as of 2009, includes data for 99% of the population in Canada.
Source(s):
Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database) (3302).
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