Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country

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Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country

This is a list of countries by estimated number of privately owned guns per 100 people. The Small Arms Survey 2017[1] provides estimates of the total number of civilian-owned guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 people. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that owns guns, because single individuals can own multiple guns.

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Map of civilian guns per 100 people by country from the Small Arms Survey 2017[1]

See also Percent of households with guns by country.

List of countries by estimated number of guns per 100 people

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All the numbers in the main column of the table below are from the annex table of Small Arms Survey 2017. The survey's methodology is based on firearms registries, surveys, expert estimates, and comparison to similar countries. The estimates include both licit and illicit firearms. The annex table where all the numbers in the main column come from also includes some sub-national areas and territories such as Northern Ireland, Puerto Rico, Scotland, etc.[1] Region information is based on the United Nations geoscheme.[2]

United Kingdom.[note 1] Small Arms Survey 2017 does not have a number for the UK.[1] It only provides numbers for these countries which constitute the UK: Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales.


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  1.  United Kingdom. A GunPolicy.org page has a rate of 5.03 firearms per 100 people in 2017—3.44 registered plus 1.59 illicit—which totals 5.03 per 100 people.[3]
  2.  United States. According to the Congressional Research Service, as of 2009 there were roughly twice as many guns per capita in the United States as there were in 1968: more than 300 million guns in all.[4][5]
    The vast majority of unregistered firearms in the U.S. are lawfully unregistered; a Federal registry is prohibited by law, and only nine states impose registration requirements upon some or all firearms. See Gun laws in the United States by state for specific details.
  3.  Finland. In 2016, there were 1.5 million guns in the official registry.[6]
  4.  Norway. In 2017, there were 1.49 million guns in the official registry.[7]
  5.   Switzerland. In August 2017, there were 876,000 guns in the official registries.[8]
  6.  Sweden. According to the Swedish National Police Agency in 2006, there were a total of 656,000 individuals who had a license for one or more guns,[9] making up 6.5% of the population. There were 2,032,000 guns in total, or 21 guns per 100 residents. Of the 2,032,000 guns, 959,000 were rifles, 726,000 shotguns, 122,000 combination rifles, 88,000 pistols, 55,000 revolvers, 3,000 automatic guns and 78,000 weapons parts.
  7.  Germany. The number of legal guns in Germany is about 7 per 100 residents.[10] There are no reliable figures on the number of illegal guns in Germany.[11] The figure of 20 million illicit guns (≈24 per 100 residents) that is often cited on the web is an estimate attributed to the GdP, Germany's largest police union.[12] This number differs from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime's estimate on illicit guns (10% of the number of legal guns, corresponding to 0.5 million illicit guns or ≈0.7 per 100 residents).[13]
  8.  Venezuela. The number displayed in this table is very likely a significant underestimation. According to one estimate, 9 to 15 million illegal firearms were held by civilians in 2007.[14]
  9.  Poland.The number of registered firearms in this survey was taken from official data for the year 2014,[15] even if data for the year 2016 (425k) should have been already available.[16] As of 2024 there was 930k registered firearms.[17]

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