A brand new KFF evaluation of provisional 2022 information from the Facilities for Illness Management exhibits that the current will increase in firearm demise charges amongst youngsters and adolescents ages 17 and underneath have been pushed largely by gun assaults, which accounted for 66% of firearm deaths amongst younger individuals in 2022, up from 54% in 2019.
Information additionally present that in 2022, seven youngsters ages 17 and under per day died by firearm, just like 2021. This caps a decade by which firearm demise charges step by step rose till 2017, then slowed by 2019 earlier than climbing sharply by 46% from 2019 to 2022.
From 2012 to 2022, practically 19,700 youngsters ages 17 and youthful died by firearm. The evaluation exhibits that each the nationwide rise in total firearm-related deaths and people particularly involving gun assaults have disproportionately affected Black and Hispanic youngsters and adolescents. In 2022, the speed of firearm deaths amongst Black youth was 12.2 deaths per 100,000 individuals – increased than some other racial and ethnic group and 6 occasions increased than White youth.
Moreover, because the onset of the pandemic, the hole in gun assault demise charges between Black and White youngsters and adolescents has considerably widened. On account of worsening developments in firearm deaths, in 2022, Black youth accounted for 48% of all youth firearm deaths though they made up solely 14% of the U.S. youth inhabitants. Publicity to gun violence disproportionately impacts Black youth and gun violence publicity is linked to poor psychological well being and substance use outcomes.