Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told CNN. The climbing US homicide rate is a concerning threat to the nation’s public health - but not surprising, Dr. Last month, the FBI released its annual Uniform Crime Report for 2020, showing that the number of homicides increased nearly 30% from 2019, the largest single-year increase the agency has recorded since it began tracking these crimes in the 1960s. Overall, the provisional homicide data are consistent with separate findings by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “Those are really the only states where we saw declines,” Anderson said. When it comes to state-by-state differences in the data, Anderson said only three states appeared to have experienced decreases in homicides last year: Maine, New Mexico and Alaska. For instance, the provisional data do not document the various mechanisms of homicide, but the researchers noted that provisional data on gun-related deaths also increased last year, climbing from a rate of 11.9 firearm deaths per 100,000 in 2019 to 13.6 per 100,000 in 2020 - a 14% increase. The NCHS researchers plan to conduct follow-up analyses on the new homicide data for more insight into state-level data and how the homicides occurred. While the initial release of the NCHS preliminary data did not provide a total number of homicides from 2020, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report recorded about 21,570 murders total last year - compared with an estimated 16,425 murders in 2019. “We’re heading in the wrong direction though, for sure.” “So, it’s obviously of concern but we’re not at the levels that we were at that time,” Anderson said. Researchers at the center noted that the 2020 homicide rate of 7.8 is the highest recorded in the United States since 1995 but is still significantly lower than the rates in the early 1980s, which topped 10 homicides per 100,000 people. The new data show the US homicide rate increased from about six homicides per 100,000 people in 2019 to 7.8 per 100,000 in 2020, according to NCHS. We didn’t have all states reporting until 1933.”
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“We had states being added to what we refer to as the death registration areas, so we were counting deaths in more areas over time. “The only larger increase since we’ve been recording these data occurred between 19, and that increase was most likely - at least partly - the result of better reporting,” Anderson told CNN. “It is the largest increase in 100 years,” Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at NCHS, said.
The previous largest increase in the US homicide rate was a 20% rise recorded from 2000 to 2001 because of the September 11 terror attacks, according to NCHS.