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Canada. 2024 ‘Deaths and Age-Specific Mortality Rates, by Selected Grouped Causes.’ Data. Ottawa ON: Statistics Canada. 22 December

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Statistics Canada provides public access to the nation's firearm injury statistics, disaggregated by gender, year, and cause of death, as gathered from the health sector.

Firearm-related ICD-10 Codes1 include:

- Unintentional handgun discharge (W32)
- Unintentional rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge (W33)
- Unintentional discharge from other and unspecified firearms (W34)
- Intentional self-harm by handgun discharge (X72)
- Intentional self-harm by rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge (X73)
- Intentional self-harm by other and unspecified firearm discharge (X74)
- Assault by handgun discharge (X93)
- Assault by rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge (X94)
- Assault by other and unspecified firearm discharge (X95)
- Handgun discharge, undetermined intent (Y22)
- Rifle, shotgun and larger firearm discharge, undetermined intent (Y23)
- Other and unspecified firearm discharge, undetermined intent (Y24)
- Legal intervention involving firearm discharge (Y35.0)

[Editor's note: GunPolicy.org omits relevant statistics from this database for the categories Homicide (Any Method) and Gun Homicide, as Statistics Canada has published more detailed homicide surveys that indicate higher homicide counts than is presented by this database.2 3. For all other relevant causes of death, this database is a primary reference]

ID: Q14063

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