EveVolved
How we know if this worked
We do not measure our success in revenue, or in how long you hold your phone in front of your face. We measure it in people who are still here.
These are the numbers. They are public, they are sourced, and where the data does not exist we say so rather than fill the gap.
United States
Gun homicides
People killed by another person with a firearm. ⚠ NOT the same as total gun deaths — most gun deaths in the US are suicides, and mixing the two roughly triples the number.
| 2023 | 2024 | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | 17,927 | 15,364 | ↓ 14.3% |
| Under 18 | not published | 1,337 | — |
- KFF publishes a RATE for 2023 (3.5 per 100,000 aged 0–17) but not a count. We will not derive one — a count multiplied out of a rounded rate is a guess wearing a number's clothes.
- Ages 0–17, firearm assault deaths.
CDC, via Pew Research Center · CDC WONDER, via KFF · retrieved 23 August 2026
Fentanyl deaths
Overdose deaths involving synthetic opioids other than methadone — overwhelmingly illicit fentanyl and its analogues.
| 2023 | 2024 | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | 72,776 | not published | — |
| Under 18 | not published | not published | — |
- Total overdose deaths for 2024 are provisional and the fentanyl-specific figure is not yet final. ⚠ We found TWO different provisional 2024 totals in two reputable places (80,499 and 81,313), which is exactly why this cell is empty rather than confidently wrong.
- Published age breakdowns stop at percentages — the 14-and-under band is reported as never exceeding 0.5% of deaths, which is not a count.
- Not published.
CDC / NCHS provisional counts · retrieved 23 August 2026
People shot
Shooting incidents recorded from law-enforcement and media reports, excluding suicides. ⚠ Compiled differently from CDC death certificates, so it will never match the homicide row exactly.
| 2023 | 2024 | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | not published | not published | — |
| Under 18 | not published | not published | — |
- Not retrieved — the source's yearly ledger blocks automated access.
- Not retrieved — see above.
- Not retrieved.
- Not retrieved.
Gun Violence Archive · retrieved 23 August 2026
Firearm suicides, under 18
Children and teenagers who took their own life with a gun. ⚠ Listed as its own row because folding it into homicide would hide it, and it is the larger share of the change in several years.
| 2023 | 2024 | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| All ages | 27,300 | 27,593 | ↑ 1.1% |
| Under 18 | not published | 687 | — |
- All ages, for context.
- All ages, for context. ⚠ This is the one figure here that ROSE.
- Rate published, count not.
- Ages 0–17.
CDC, via Pew Research Center · CDC WONDER, via KFF · retrieved 23 August 2026