The latest government data on school shootings
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In the wake of the massacre in Uvalde, Texas that left 19 children and two teachers dead, USAFacts collected recent data about school shootings in the United States. Here are the current metrics about these incidents.
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- From 2000 to 2020, there were anywhere from 11 to 75 shootings with casualties (both injuries and deaths) at public and private elementary and secondary schools each year. Both the 2018–19 and 2019–20 school years had 75 shootings with casualties, but, due to pandemic school closures, one must use caution when comparing the 2019–20 school year with earlier years.
- Thirty-two incidents over these 20 years happened during school hours: 18 during classes, three at lunch, and 11 during school dismissal. In 2019–20, another 80 incidents happened at other times.
- Escalated disputes were the most common situation for school shootings in the 2019–20 school year, with 45 separate incidents. For comparison, 10 school shooting incidents that year were drive-bys. Nine were accidental.
See more data on school shootings in this new article at USAFacts.
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For more on overall active shooter incidents, see the crime section of the State of the Union in Numbers.
Introducing Our Changing Population
What does census data reveal about America? How do age, race, gender, and time factor in to the story of us as a people? Essentially, who are we? Answer these questions with the metrics in Our Changing Population.
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- Between 2010 and 2020, the Hispanic/Latino share of the population grew more than any other, increasing 2.2 percentage points to 18.6%. How is that different from 1990? From 1970?
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- Texas had the most growth of any state during that time, gaining 4.1 million more residents. Illinois had the steepest decline, losing 253,015 residents.
- Hawaii, Delaware, Mississippi, Maryland, and Louisiana are the five most racially diverse states. What states are the least diverse? Interact with this tool to find out.
Take in the whole country, look into your state, or even your county. How has it changed in the last decade? Over your lifetime? Our Changing Population is full of Census Bureau data to make those discoveries.
Celebrating Memorial Day with military data
This Memorial Day, as the nation remembers the military personnel who have died while serving the country, USAFacts has numbers to add perspective on their sacrifices. This article traces military deaths, draft metrics, and more, dating back to World War I.
- Almost 13 million soldiers were drafted for World War I and World War II. Sixty percent of service members in each world war were draftees.
- The nation’s last draft was in 1973 during the Vietnam War. More than 8.7 million service members served during the Vietnam War; 20% of them were draftees.
- The Persian Gulf War was the first major US military action overseas to use an all-volunteer force.
- There were three operations in Iraq starting in the early 2000s: Operation Iraqi Freedom (begun in 2003), Operation New Dawn (2010), and Operation Inherent Resolve (2014). Of these, Operation Iraqi Freedom endured the most US military deaths: 3,481 were hostile deaths, and 937 were non-hostile.
Learn more with the bar charts in this article.
One last fact
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The federal deficit tracks when the government spends more than it receives in revenue in a single year. The federal government has run budget deficits annually since 2001. The national debt is the total of all those yearly deficits.
The deficit was $2.8 trillion last year, 9.7% lower than the approximately $3.1 trillion deficit in 2020. The federal debt increased 2% last year due to the government running a smaller deficit.
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