Mapped: The countries with the most guns
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ma...the-most-guns/
22 October 2016
The issue of gun control in the US has been eclipsed somewhat by the incendiary nature of this year’s presidential election campaign, but the below map shows just how far ahead of the rest of the world the country is when it comes to owning firearms.
Data from the Small Arms Survey, supported by more recent figures from other sources, puts the US way out in front in terms of guns per 100 residents, with 112.6, meaning there is more than one gun for each American citizen. The US figures come from a 2012 Congressional Research Service report.
Second in the ranking is Serbia, with 75.6. Its firearm habit is in part a hangover from the break-up of Yugoslavia in the Nineties, subsequent wars, as well as gun laws considered liberal by European standards.
The 10 countries with the most guns
USA - 112.6 guns per 100 residents
Serbia - 75.6
Yemen - 54.8
Switzerland - 45.7
Cyprus - 36.4
Saudi Arabia - 35
Iraq - 34.2
Uruguay - 31.8
Sweden - 31.6
Norway - 31.3
Yemen, Switzerland and Cyprus complete the top five, while the UK ranks 82nd in the world, with 6.6 guns per 100 residents.
France, meanwhile, sits just outside the top 10 in 11th, with 31.2.
The 10 countries with the most gun-related deaths
Honduras - 67.18 per 100,000 residents per year
Venezuela - 59.13
Swaziland - 37.16
Guatemala - 34.1
Jamaica - 30.72
El Salvador - 26.77
Colombia - 25.94
Brazil - 21.2
Panama - 15.11
Uruguay - 11.52
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