Table 4
Victims of police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by gender and age group, Canada, 2010 to 2024

Table 4
Victims of police-reported mass casualty events and violent crime, by gender and age group, Canada, 2010 to 2024 Table summary
The information is grouped by Gender and age group (appearing as row headers), Mass casualty events, Violent crime4, Total, Level 11, Level 22 and Level 33, calculated using number, average annual rate5, number, average annual rate5, number, average annual rate5, number, average annual rate5, number and average annual rate5 units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Gender and age group Mass casualty events Violent crime Table 4 Note 4
Total Level 1 Table 4 Note 1 Level 2 Table 4 Note 2 Level 3 Table 4 Note 3
number average annual rate Table 4 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 4 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 4 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 4 Note 5 number average annual rate Table 4 Note 5
Note 1

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained minor physical injury.

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Note 2

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained physical injury and one to three victims sustained major physical injury or died.

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Note 3

Includes violent incidents where four or more victims sustained major physical injury or died.

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Note 4

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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Note 5

This rate is the average of the annual rates from 2010 to 2024.

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Note 6

Includes victims whose age was coded as unknown.

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Note 7

Includes victims whose gender was coded as unknown.

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Note: Mass casualty events refer to violent incidents where four or more victims sustained physical injury or died. For information about level of injury, see Text box 1. Excludes criminal negligence causing bodily harm or death. The option for police to code victims as non-binary in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Survey was implemented in 2018. Given that small counts of victims identified as “non-binary” may exist, the UCR Survey aggregate data available to the public have been recoded to assign these counts to either “men and boys” or “women and girls,” in order to ensure the protection of confidentiality and privacy. Victims identified as non-binary have been assigned to either men and boys or women and girls based on the regional distribution of victims’ gender. Victims older than 110 years were coded as unknown due to possible instances of miscoding of unknown age within this age category, as were certain victims whose age was reported as 80 and older, but were identified as possible instances of miscoding. Excludes a small number of victims in Quebec whose age was unknown but was miscoded as 0. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. 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: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (Trend Database).
Men and boys  
17 years and younger 3,697 6.8 3,290 6.0 320 0.6 87 0.2 447,280 821
11 years and younger 1,006 2.8 945 2.6 26 0.1 35 0.1 130,895 366
12 to 17 years 2,691 14.3 2,345 12.4 294 1.6 52 0.3 316,385 1,682
18 to 44 years 10,395 10.3 8,220 8.2 1,690 1.7 485 0.5 1,572,806 1,549
45 years and older 2,039 1.7 1,552 1.3 334 0.3 153 0.1 707,713 605
Total Table 4 Note 6 16,405 6.0 13,301 4.9 2,372 0.9 732 0.3 2,770,407 1,016
Women and girls  
17 years and younger 2,887 5.6 2,659 5.1 162 0.3 66 0.1 548,596 1,057
11 years and younger 951 2.8 868 2.5 50 0.1 33 0.1 140,990 413
12 to 17 years 1,936 10.9 1,791 10.0 112 0.6 33 0.2 407,606 2,289
18 to 44 years 5,751 5.8 4,906 5.0 625 0.6 220 0.2 1,885,545 1,912
45 years and older 1,385 1.1 1,114 0.9 171 0.1 100 0.1 600,959 477
Total Table 4 Note 6 10,106 3.7 8,753 3.2 967 0.4 386 0.1 3,054,061 1,105
Total Table 4 Note 7  
17 years and younger 6,605 6.2 5,969 5.6 483 0.5 153 0.1 1,002,051 942
11 years and younger 1,968 2.8 1,824 2.6 76 0.1 68 0.1 276,601 396
12 to 17 years 4,637 12.6 4,145 11.3 407 1.1 85 0.2 725,450 1,981
18 to 44 years 16,191 8.1 13,167 6.6 2,319 1.2 705 0.3 3,466,373 1,732
45 years and older 3,425 1.4 2,667 1.1 505 0.2 253 0.1 1,310,783 539
Total Table 4 Note 6 26,634 4.9 22,167 4.0 3,347 0.6 1,120 0.2 5,851,093 1,066
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