Table 12
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, by injury and weapon causing injury, Canada, 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020


Table 12
Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime, by injury and weapon causing injury, Canada, 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020
Table summary
This table displays the results of Victims of police-reported violent firearm-related crime. The information is grouped by Characteristics (appearing as row headers), 2009 to 2014, 2015 to 2020, 2019 and 2020, calculated using average rate, percent, number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Characteristics 2009 to 2014 2015 to 2020 2019 2020
average rateTable 12 Note 1 percentTable 12 Note 2 average rateTable 12 Note 1 percentTable 12 Note 2 number rateTable 12 Note 3 percentTable 12 Note 2 number rateTable 12 Note 3 percentTable 12 Note 2
Total victimsTable 12 Note 4 22.6 100 27.2 100 8,256 28.7 100 8,344 28.7 100
No injury (no weapon or physical force) 2.6 11 3.0 11 915 3.2 11 941 3.2 11
No injury (although weapon or physical force used) 12.1 54 13.9 51 4,286 14.9 52 4,139 14.2 50
Minor injuryTable 12 Note 5 5.3 23 5.9 22 1,715 6.0 21 1,828 6.3 22
Firearm 3.3 62 3.6 60 1,057 3.7 62 1,116 3.8 61
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.8 16 1.0 17 291 1.0 17 318 1.1 17
Physical force (no weapon) 1.1 22 1.4 23 367 1.3 21 394 1.4 22
Serious injury 1.3 6 2.0 8 693 2.4 8 705 2.4 8
Firearm 1.0 82 1.7 83 575 2.0 83 599 2.1 85
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.2 13 0.3 13 90 0.3 13 79 0.3 11
Physical force (no weapon) 0.1 6 0.1 4 28 0.1 4 27 0.1 4
Death 0.5 2 0.8 3 231 0.8 3 254 0.9 3
Firearm 0.5 99 0.8 100 230 0.8 100 252 0.9 99
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.0 1 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 2 0.0 1
Physical force (no weapon) 0.0 0 0.0 0 1 0.0 0 0 0.0 0
Unknown injuryTable 12 Note 7 0.9 4 1.6 6 416 1.4 5 477 1.6 6
Firearm 0.7 75 1.3 85 339 1.2 81 397 1.4 83
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.1 15 0.1 9 48 0.2 12 50 0.2 10
Physical force (no weapon) 0.1 11 0.1 6 29 0.1 7 30 0.1 6
Male victimsTable 12 Note 8 30.5 100 37.0 100 5,642 39.5 100 5,571 38.6 100
No injury (no weapon or physical force) 3.0 10 3.7 10 577 4.0 10 562 3.9 10
No injury (although weapon or physical force used) 15.7 52 18.2 49 2,795 19.6 50 2,671 18.5 48
Minor injuryTable 12 Note 5 7.5 25 8.2 22 1,196 8.4 21 1,215 8.4 22
Firearm 4.9 65 5.2 64 782 5.5 65 790 5.5 65
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 1.2 16 1.4 17 207 1.4 17 208 1.4 17
Physical force (no weapon) 1.4 18 1.5 19 207 1.4 17 217 1.5 18
Serious injury 2.3 7 3.6 10 604 4.2 11 612 4.2 11
Firearm 1.9 83 3.0 84 510 3.6 84 532 3.7 87
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.3 13 0.5 13 75 0.5 12 64 0.4 10
Physical force (no weapon) 0.1 4 0.1 3 19 0.1 3 16 0.1 3
Death 0.8 3 1.3 3 203 1.4 4 212 1.5 4
Firearm 0.8 99 1.3 100 203 1.4 100 211 1.5 100
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 1 0.0 0
Physical force (no weapon) 0.0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0
Unknown injuryTable 12 Note 7 1.1 4 2.0 5 267 1.9 5 299 2.1 5
Firearm 0.9 77 1.8 88 225 1.6 84 259 1.8 87
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.2 13 0.2 9 31 0.2 12 27 0.2 9
Physical force (no weapon) 0.1 9 0.1 4 11 0.1 4 13 0.1 4
Female victimsTable 12 Note 8 14.7 100 17.3 100 2,578 17.8 100 2,744 18.7 100
No injury (no weapon or physical force) 2.1 14 2.3 13 335 2.3 13 377 2.6 14
No injury (although weapon or physical force used) 8.4 58 9.6 56 1,476 10.2 57 1,463 10.0 53
Minor injuryTable 12 Note 5 3.0 21 3.7 21 518 3.6 20 611 4.2 22
Firearm 1.7 56 1.9 51 275 1.9 53 325 2.2 53
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.5 15 0.6 17 83 0.6 16 110 0.7 18
Physical force (no weapon) 0.9 29 1.2 32 160 1.1 31 176 1.2 29
Serious injury 0.3 2 0.5 3 89 0.6 3 93 0.6 3
Firearm 0.2 73 0.4 74 65 0.4 73 67 0.5 72
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.0 10 0.1 16 15 0.1 17 15 0.1 16
Physical force (no weapon) 0.0 17 0.1 11 9 0.1 10 11 0.1 12
Death 0.2 1 0.2 1 28 0.2 1 42 0.3 2
Firearm 0.2 98 0.2 98 27 0.2 96 41 0.3 98
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.0 2 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 1 0.0 2
Physical force (no weapon) 0.0 0 0.0 1 1 0.0 4 0 0.0 0
Unknown injuryTable 12 Note 7 0.6 4 0.9 5 132 0.9 5 158 1.1 6
Firearm 0.4 71 0.7 76 98 0.7 74 119 0.8 75
Other weaponTable 12 Note 6 0.1 16 0.1 13 16 0.1 12 22 0.1 14
Physical force (no weapon) 0.1 13 0.1 12 18 0.1 14 17 0.1 11
0 true zero or a value rounded to zero
Note 1

Average rates are calculated per 100,000 population and are based on the total count of victims over the time period divided by the sum of the populations for each year in the six–year time period.

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Note 2

For injury, percent is of all victims including those with unknown injury: For weapon causing injury, percent is within each injury group.

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Note 3

Rates are calculated per 100,000 population using revised July 1st population estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.

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Note 4

Includes victims where gender is unknown.

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Note 5

A minor injury is defined as a physical injury that required no professional medical treatment or only some first aid.

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Note 6

Includes all weapons other than firearms, such as knives, clubs or blunt instruments, poison, motor vehicles, ligature, or fire. Includes victims where the type of weapon causing injury is unknown.

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Note 7

Injury is considered unknown when the extent of injuries to the victim could not be determined though weapons or physical force were used against the victim.

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Note 8

The option for police to code victims as gender diverse in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey was implemented in 2018. Given that small counts of victims identified as “gender diverse” may exist, the UCR aggregate data available to the public has been recoded to assign these counts to either “male” or “female”, in order to ensure the protection of confidentiality and privacy. Victims identified as gender diverse have been assigned to either male or female based on the regional distribution of victims’ gender.

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Note: Firearm-related crime is the number of victims reported by police in incidents where a firearm was present. Excludes Quebec due to a large proportion of cases where the most serious weapon present was reported as unknown.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey trend file.
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