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Table 1 Victims (0–14) of unintentional firearm fatalities, 2005–2012, 16 states

From: Children and unintentional firearm death

Age

# of cases

Years of exposure (000)

Deaths/ million years

# Male

# Female

% Male

# Self-inflicted

Other-inflicted

Unk

% Other (w/o unk)

0–1

7

17,110

0.4

2

5

29 %

1

6

0

86 %

2–4

42

25,757

1.6

37

5

88 %

27

11

4

29 %

5–10

69

51,407

1.3

52

17

75 %

18

46

5

72 %

11–12

51

17,464

2.9

40

11

78 %

13

35

3

73 %

13–14

60

17,623

3.4

54

6

90 %

12

43

3

78 %

0–14

229

129,361

1.8

185

44

81 %

71

141

17

66 %