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This is a list of countries by number of guns divided by number of residents.[1][2][3][4]

The numbers are based on the average of figures provided by the Small Arms Survey 2007,[3] unless other sources are provided, and are an estimation based on dividing the total amount of civilian owned guns in a nation by the total population of that nation. As many people possess multiple weapons and many others possess none, this number is not a representation of the percentage of people who possess guns in each nation. Nor does it recognize that there are government supplied weapons for militia such as Switzerland. Alternatively, a civilian supplied country such as the USA, can have the data significantly distorted by owners that are collectors that have huge collections of weaponry. Another obvious variable is that a country such as Yemen where the public bearing of armament[clarification needed] is so obvious that it results in an unreliably wide estimated range of 30% to 90%. .

No. Country Guns per
100 residents		 Year Comment
1  United States 90.0 2007
2  Yemen 61.0 2007
3  Switzerland 46.0 2007
4  Iraq 39.0 2007
5  Serbia 37.5 2007
6  France 32.0 2007
7  Finland[5] 32.0 2008
8  Greece 31.8 2010
9  Canada 31.5 2007
10  Sweden 31.5 2007
11  Austria 31.0 2007
12  Germany 30.0 2007
13  New Zealand[2] 26.8 1993
14  Saudi Arabia 26.3 2007
15  Angola 20.5 2007
16  Thailand 16.0 2007
17  Australia 15.5 2007
18  Mexico 15.0 2007
19  South Africa 13.1 2007
20  Turkey 13.0 2007
21  Argentina 12.6 2007
22  Italy 12.1 2007
23  Pakistan 12.0 2007
24  Spain 11.0 2007
25  Russia 9.0 2007
26  Ukraine 9.0 2007
27  Brazil 8.8 2007
28  Colombia 7.2 2007
29  United Kingdom 5.6 2007
30  Iran 5.3 2007
31  Philippines 4.7 2007
32  India 4.0 2007
33  China 3.5 2007
34  Nigeria 1.0 2007

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Vladeta Ajdacic-Gross, Martin Killias, Urs Hepp, Erika Gadola, Matthias Bopp, Christoph Lauber, Ulrich Schnyder, Felix Gutzwiller, Wulf Rössler. "Firearm suicides and the availability of firearms: analysis of longitudinal international data". Poster presented at the European Congress of Epidemiology, Utrecht. http://www.puk-west.unizh.ch/en/publikationen/suicide.shtml. 
  2. ^ a b Martin Killias (1993). "Gun Ownership, Suicide and Homicide: An International Perspective". http://www.unicri.it/wwk/publications/books/series/understanding/19_GUN_OWNERSHIP.pdf. 
  3. ^ a b Geneva Graduate Institute of International Studies. "Small Arms Survey 2007". Cambridge. http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/files/sas/publications/year_b_pdf/2007/CH2%20Stockpiles.pdf. 
  4. ^ Small Arms Survey 2007 Part 2
  5. ^ Fact sheet about gun ownership in Finland, 29 August 2008, Ministry of Interior of Finland

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