Table 6
Victims and persons accused of police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by gender and age group, Canada, 2013, 2018, 2022 and 2023

Table 6
Victims and persons accused of police-reported firearm-related violent crime, by gender and age group, Canada, 2013, 2018, 2022 and 2023 Table summary
The information is grouped by Gender and age group (appearing as row headers), 2023, 2022, 2018 and 2013, calculated using number, rate, number, rate, number, rate, number and rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Gender and age group 2023 2022 2018 2013
number rate number rate number rate number rate
Note 1

Includes accused persons aged 12 years and older as those younger than 12 years cannot be held criminally responsible.

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Note: Firearm-related violent crime includes incidents where the most serious violation was a firearm-specific violent offence (discharging a firearm with intent, use of a firearm in the commission of an offence, pointing a firearm) and other violent crimes where the most serious weapon present in the incident was a firearm. Victims include incidents where a victim record was provided and accused persons include all incidents, regardless of whether a victim record was provided. The option for police to code victims and accused persons as “non-binary” in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey was implemented in 2018. In the context of the UCR Survey, the term “non-binary” refers to a person who publicly expresses themselves as neither exclusively male nor exclusively female. Given that small counts of non-binary victims and accused persons may exist, the UCR Survey data available to the public have been recoded with these victims and accused persons distributed in the “men and boys” or “women and girls” categories based on the regional distribution of victims’ and accused persons’ gender. This recoding ensures the protection of the confidentiality and privacy of victims and accused persons. Excludes victims and accused persons whose age or gender was coded as unknown, and those aged older than 110 years. As such, victim rates presented in this table will not match those presented elsewhere. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0, and victims whose age was reported as 80 years or older but were identified as possible instances of miscoding. Due to data quality concerns, the Québec City Police Service is excluded. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
Victims  
Men and boys 7,442 38.2 7,400 39.1 6,048 33.7 4,544 26.8
17 years and younger 1,177 31.4 1,142 31.0 853 23.8 737 21.2
11 years and younger 169 7.0 156 6.5 140 5.8 142 6.3
12 to 17 years 1,008 76.7 986 77.0 713 60.2 595 49.5
18 years and older 6,265 39.8 6,258 41.1 5,195 36.2 3,807 28.2
18 to 24 years 1,556 86.4 1,544 90.6 1,575 92.8 1,279 76.7
25 to 34 years 1,892 63.8 1,933 69.8 1,497 58.7 1,057 45.1
35 years and older 2,817 25.6 2,781 25.9 2,123 21.0 1,471 15.5
Women and girls 3,736 19.1 3,795 19.9 2,956 16.3 2,324 13.5
17 years and younger 616 17.4 555 15.9 337 9.9 281 8.5
11 years and younger 92 4.0 97 4.2 89 3.9 68 3.1
12 to 17 years 524 42.3 458 38.0 248 22.0 213 18.8
18 years and older 3,120 19.5 3,240 20.8 2,619 17.8 2,043 14.7
18 to 24 years 769 46.4 788 49.8 684 43.7 594 37.9
25 to 34 years 914 33.0 978 37.4 776 31.6 526 22.6
35 years and older 1,437 12.4 1,474 13.0 1,159 10.8 923 9.2
Total 11,178 28.6 11,195 29.5 9,004 24.9 6,868 20.1
17 years and younger 1,793 24.6 1,697 23.6 1,190 17.0 1,018 15.0
11 years and younger 261 5.5 253 5.4 229 4.9 210 4.7
12 to 17 years 1,532 60.0 1,444 58.0 961 41.5 808 34.6
18 years and older 9,385 29.5 9,498 30.9 7,814 26.8 5,850 21.3
18 to 24 years 2,325 67.2 2,332 71.0 2,259 69.2 1,873 57.9
25 to 34 years 2,806 48.9 2,911 54.0 2,273 45.4 1,583 33.8
35 years and older 4,254 18.8 4,255 19.3 3,282 15.7 2,394 12.3
Accused persons  
Men and boys 6,977 40.9 7,170 43.5 5,972 38.4 4,298 29.3
12 to 17 years Table 6 Note 1 1,663 126.6 1,452 113.4 1,033 87.3 796 66.3
18 years and older 5,314 33.7 5,718 37.6 4,939 34.4 3,502 26.0
18 to 24 years 1,656 91.9 1,862 109.3 1,789 105.4 1,410 84.5
25 to 34 years 1,754 59.2 1,905 68.7 1,643 64.4 972 41.4
35 years and older 1,904 17.3 1,951 18.2 1,507 14.9 1,120 11.8
Women and girls 864 5.0 881 5.3 738 4.6 393 2.6
12 to 17 years Table 6 Note 1 131 10.6 94 7.8 98 8.7 64 5.7
18 years and older 733 4.6 787 5.1 640 4.3 329 2.4
18 to 24 years 190 11.5 227 14.4 217 13.9 121 7.7
25 to 34 years 272 9.8 311 11.9 251 10.2 105 4.5
35 years and older 271 2.3 249 2.2 172 1.6 103 1.0
Total 7,841 22.8 8,051 24.2 6,710 21.3 4,691 15.8
12 to 17 years Table 6 Note 1 1,794 70.3 1,546 62.1 1,131 48.9 860 36.9
18 years and older 6,047 19.0 6,505 21.1 5,579 19.2 3,831 14.0
18 to 24 years 1,846 53.4 2,089 63.6 2,006 61.5 1,531 47.3
25 to 34 years 2,026 35.3 2,216 41.1 1,894 37.9 1,077 23.0
35 years and older 2,175 9.6 2,200 10.0 1,679 8.1 1,223 6.3
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