Definition: Number of firearm-related deaths per 100,000 children and young adults ages 0-24 (e.g., in 2020, the death rate due to firearms among California children and young adults was 5.6 per 100,000).
Data Source: California Dept. of Public Health, Death Statistical Master Files; California Dept. of Finance, Population Estimates and Projections; CDC WONDER Online Database, Underlying Cause of Death (May 2022).
Footnote: The notation S refers to rates that have been suppressed because there were fewer than 20 firearm-related child and young adult deaths, and to numbers and rates that have been suppressed to protect confidentiality.
