This graph displays murder victims in the U.S. by race/ethnicity and gender in 2016. In 2016, around 3.208 murder victims were female.
Additional information on black/African American murder victims in the United StatesAccording to male deaths by firearm-related injuries by ethnicity, the amount of black victims has fallen by over half since 1970 in proportion to the population. While this improvement has been welcomed, black males remained twice as likely to be the victim of a gun related death compared with white males.
Total | 15070 | 11821 | 3208 | 41 |
White | 6576 | 4665 | 1906 | 5 |
Black | 7881 | 6749 | 1126 | 6 |
Other race | 400 | 266 | 133 | 1 |
Unknown race | 213 | 141 | 43 | 29 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2367 | 1977 | 389 | 1 |
Not Hispanic or Latino | 9725 | 7600 | 2120 | 5 |
Unknown | 2226 | 1678 | 516 | 32 |