Gun and Murder Statistics#1 - Correlation

Sheet 1: Correlation

Correlation Of Murders With Gun Ownership?					Yes – weakly negative! (inverse relationship)
Country	Murders	Rank	Guns	Rank	Correlation Coefficients
Afghanistan	2.4	114	4.6	102	-0.3410	Spearman's rho
Albania	4.0	92	8.6	67	-0.2264	Pearson's r
Algeria	1.5	134	7.6	75
Angola	19.0	33	17.3	32
Argentina	3.4	97	10.2	60	In layman's terms
Armenia	1.4	139	12.5	50	These statistics show that having more guns
Australia	1.0	152	15.0	40	within a country's borders does not lead
Austria	0.6	168	30.4	14	to an increase in the murder rate –
Azerbaijan	2.2	117	3.5	111	In fact, there is a defined correlation between
Bahamas	27.4	17	5.3	94	having more guns and a lower murder rate.
Bahrain	0.6	169	24.8	18
Bangladesh	2.7	110	0.5	165	Charts
Barbados	11.3	56	7.8	73	A scattergram of each analysis is also
Belarus	4.9	83	7.3	76	included with the trendline having the
Belgium	1.7	128	17.2	34	highest coefficient of determination.
Belize	41.4	6	10.0	61
Benin	15.1	43	1.4	133
Bhutan	1.0	153	3.5	112
Bolivia	8.9	64	2.8	115
Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.5	135	17.3	33
Botswana	14.5	46	4.9	98
Brazil	21.0	27	8.0	72
Brunei	0.5	171	1.4	134
Bulgaria	2.0	123	6.2	86
Burkina Faso	18.0	35	1.1	145
Burundi	21.7	24	1.2	141
Cambodia	3.4	98	4.3	105
Cameroon	19.7	32	2.8	116
Canada	1.6	131	30.8	13
Cape Verde	11.6	54	5.4	92
Central African Republic	29.3	16	1.0	149
Chad	15.8	39	1.1	146
Chile	3.2	102	10.7	57
China	1.0	154	4.9	99
Colombia	31.0	14	5.9	88
Comoros	12.2	52	1.8	123
Congo	30.8	15	2.7	118
Costa Rica	10.0	63	9.9	62
Côte d'Ivoire	56.9	3	2.4	120
Croatia	1.4	140	21.7	25
Cuba	5.0	82	4.8	100
Cyprus	1.7	129	36.4	6
Czech Republic	1.7	130	16.3	36
Democratic Republic of the Congo	21.7	25	1.4	135
Denmark	0.9	158	12.0	52
Djibouti	3.4	99	2.8	117
Dominican Republic	25.0	18	5.1	95
Ecuador	15.2	41	1.3	138
Egypt	1.2	143	3.5	113
El Salvador	69.2	2	5.8	89
Equatorial Guinea	20.7	28	19.9	28
Eritrea	17.8	36	0.5	166
Estonia	5.2	80	9.2	63
Ethiopia	22.5	22	0.4	170
Fiji	2.8	108	0.5	167
Finland	2.2	118	45.3	4
France	1.1	148	31.2	12
Gabon	13.8	48	14.0	44
Gambia	10.8	58	0.8	153
Georgia	4.3	88	7.3	77
Germany	0.8	162	30.3	15
Ghana	15.7	40	0.4	171
Greece	1.5	136	22.5	23
Guatemala	38.5	7	13.1	47
Guinea	22.5	23	1.2	142
Guinea-Bissau	20.2	29	1.6	125
Guyana	18.6	34	14.6	43
Haiti	6.9	75	0.6	160
Honduras	91.6	1	6.2	87
Hungary	1.3	142	5.5	90
Iceland	0.3	173	30.3	16
India	3.4	100	4.2	106
Indonesia	8.1	70	0.5	168
Iran	3.0	106	7.3	78
Iraq	2.0	124	34.2	8
Ireland	1.2	144	8.6	68
Israel	2.1	121	7.3	79
Italy	0.9	159	11.9	53
Jamaica	52.2	4	8.1	71
Japan	0.4	172	0.6	161
Jordan	1.8	127	11.5	56
Kazakhstan	8.8	65	1.3	139
Kenya	20.1	30	6.4	84
Kuwait	2.2	119	24.8	19
Kyrgyzstan	20.1	31	0.9	152
Laos	4.6	86	1.2	143
Latvia	3.1	104	19.0	30
Lebanon	2.2	120	21.0	27
Lesotho	35.2	11	2.7	119
Liberia	10.1	62	1.6	126
Libya	2.9	107	15.5	38
Lithuania	6.6	77	0.7	156
Luxembourg	2.5	112	15.3	39
Macedonia	1.9	126	24.1	20
Madagascar	8.1	71	0.8	154
Malawi	36.0	10	0.7	157
Malaysia	2.3	115	1.5	129
Maldives	1.6	132	6.5	83
Mali	8.0	72	1.1	147
Malta	1.0	155	11.9	54
Mauritania	14.7	45	1.6	127
Mauritius	2.5	113	14.7	42
Mexico	22.7	21	15.0	41
Moldova	7.5	74	7.1	80
Mongolia	8.7	67	1.9	122
Montenegro	3.5	96	23.1	21
Morocco	1.4	141	5.0	97
Mozambique	8.8	66	5.1	96
Myanmar	10.2	60	4.0	107
Namibia	17.2	37	12.6	49
Nepal	2.8	109	0.8	155
Netherlands	1.1	149	3.9	108
New Zealand	0.9	160	22.6	22
Nicaragua	13.6	49	7.7	74
Niger	3.8	93	0.7	158
Nigeria	12.2	53	1.5	130
North Korea	15.2	42	0.6	162
Norway	0.6	170	31.3	11
Oman	0.7	165	25.5	17
Pakistan	7.8	73	11.6	55
Palestine	4.1	91	3.4	114
Panama	21.6	26	21.7	26
Papua New Guinea	13.0	50	1.2	144
Paraguay	11.5	55	17.0	35
Peru	10.3	59	18.8	31
Philippines	5.4	79	4.7	101
Poland	1.1	150	1.3	140
Portugal	1.2	145	8.5	69
Qatar	0.9	161	19.2	29
Romania	2.0	125	0.7	159
Russia	10.2	61	8.9	65
Rwanda	17.1	38	0.6	163
Saudi Arabia	1.0	156	35.0	7
Senegal	8.7	68	2.0	121
Serbia	1.2	146	37.8	5
Seychelles	8.3	69	5.4	93
Sierra Leone	14.9	44	0.6	164
Singapore	0.3	174	0.5	169
Slovakia	1.5	137	8.3	70
Slovenia	0.7	166	13.5	45
Solomon Islands	3.7	94	0.4	172
Somalia	1.5	138	9.1	64
South Africa	31.8	13	12.7	48
South Korea	2.6	111	1.1	148
Spain	0.8	163	10.4	59
Sri Lanka	3.6	95	1.5	131
Sudan	24.2	20	5.5	91
Suriname	4.6	87	13.4	46
Swaziland	12.9	51	6.4	85
Sweden	1.0	157	31.6	10
Switzerland	0.7	167	45.7	3
Syria	2.3	116	3.9	109
Taiwan	3.2	103	4.6	103
Tajikistan	2.1	122	1.0	150
Tanzania	24.5	19	1.4	136
Thailand	4.8	84	15.6	37
Timor-Leste	6.9	76	0.3	173
Togo	10.9	57	1.0	151
Trinidad And Tobago	35.2	12	1.6	128
Tunisia	1.1	151	0.1	174
Turkey	3.3	101	12.5	51
Turkmenistan	4.2	89	3.8	110
Uganda	36.3	9	1.4	137
Ukraine	5.2	81	6.6	81
United Arab Emirates	0.8	164	22.1	24
United Kingdom	1.2	147	6.6	82
United States	4.8	85	88.8	1
Uruguay	5.9	78	31.8	9
Uzbekistan	3.1	105	1.5	132
Venezuela	45.1	5	10.7	58
Vietnam	1.6	133	1.7	124
Yemen	4.2	90	54.8	2
Zambia	38	8	8.9	66
Zimbabwe	14.3	47	4.6	104

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Gun and Murder Statistics#1 - Correlation

Sheet 1: Correlation