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This is a list of countries by estimated number of privately owned guns per 100 persons. The ''
Small Arms Survey The Small Arms Survey (SAS) is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It provides information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence, as a resou ...
2017''Briefing Paper. Estimating Global Civilian-Held Firearms Numbers
June 2018 by Aaron Karp. Of
Small Arms Survey The Small Arms Survey (SAS) is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It provides information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence, as a resou ...
. See box 4 on page 8 for detailed explanation of "Computation methods for civilian firearms holdings". See country table in annex PDF
Civilian Firearms Holdings, 2017
Se

 provides estimates of the total number of civilian-owned
gun A gun is a ranged weapon designed to use a shooting tube (gun barrel) to launch projectiles. The projectiles are typically solid, but can also be pressurized liquid (e.g. in water guns/cannons, spray guns for painting or pressure washing, p ...
s in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 persons. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that owns guns. This is because individuals can own more than one gun. See also: Percent of households with guns by country. It gives the percent of
household A household consists of two or more persons who live in the same dwelling. It may be of a single family or another type of person group. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is i ...
s with guns. It is further broken down by the percent of households with handguns. Also, by the percent of adults living in armed households.


List of countries by estimated number of guns per 100 people

All the numbers in the main column of the table below are from the annex table of ''
Small Arms Survey The Small Arms Survey (SAS) is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It provides information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence, as a resou ...
2017''. The briefing paper for it says: "Numbers provided here include all firearms in civilian hands, both licit and illicit." The annex table where all the numbers in the main column come from also includes some sub-national areas and
territories A territory is an area of land, sea, or space, particularly belonging or connected to a country, person, or animal. In international politics, a territory is usually either the total area from which a state may extract power resources or a ...
such as
Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
,
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (; abbreviated PR; tnq, Boriken, ''Borinquen''), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico ( es, link=yes, Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit=Free Associated State of Puerto Rico), is a Caribbean island and unincorporated ...
,
Scotland Scotland (, ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a Anglo-Scottish border, border with England to the southeast ...
, etc.


Notes

'' Return to top of table.'' Some of the notes below refer to a previous version of the table that used numbers from ''
Small Arms Survey The Small Arms Survey (SAS) is an independent research project located at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. It provides information on all aspects of small arms and armed violence, as a resou ...
2007.'' So some of the info below may be out of date.


See also

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List of countries by firearm-related death rate This is a historical list of countries by firearm-related death rate per 100,000 population in the listed year. Homicide figures may include justifiable homicides along with criminal homicides, depending upon jurisdiction and reporting standar ...
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List of countries by guns and homicide Created by combining: Number of guns per capita by country and List of countries by intentional homicide rate. {, class="wikitable sortable static-row-numbers" border="1" , - ! Country ! data-sort-type="number" , Rate ! data-sort-type="numb ...


References


External links


GunPolicy.org
is hosted by the Sydney Medical School, at the
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in Australia. Choose any country or region from the sidebar menus for more info. {{Law country lists
Gun ownership Gun ownership is the status of owning a gun, either legal or illegal. In 2018, Small Arms Survey reported that there are over one billion small arms distributed globally, of which 857 million (about 85 percent) are in civilian hands.