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Rate is incidents per million people per year in the period, using each year's population. It is shown once a country has 3 or more incidents, since one shooting in a small country swings it wildly. Click a heading to rank by it; tick countries to show only them.
Before 2018, incidents come from Wikipedia's US decade lists, country lists, regional rampage lists, school-attack lists and terrorism lists (2000 to 2017). The further back you go, the more the record leans toward Europe, North America and Australia, where Wikipedia editors have documented local history; quiet decades elsewhere often mean missing records, not peace.
From 2018 on, US entries come from yearly lists built on the Gun Violence Archive, which records nearly every incident with four or more people shot. Other countries come from Wikipedia's country lists, regional rampage lists and yearly terrorism lists, which mostly record larger or better-reported attacks. Many shootings in places such as Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria and the Sahel are missing. Raise the shot or killed minimum in the bottom bar to compare countries on a more even footing: at 10 or more shot, the US share drops from about 90% to under 60%.
Categories were assigned by matching keywords in each incident's description, with a hand check of the best-known attacks. Many US entries only say that people were shot in a neighborhood, so they stay Undetermined. Treat the colors as a rough guide, not a ruling on motive.
Coordinates come from the linked Wikipedia article for each town or neighborhood, with OpenStreetMap as a fallback, so most dots sit at the center of the town. Incidents in the same town are spread by up to about 10 km so that stacked dots separate when you zoom in.
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