Black youths most likely to be shot Nonfatal frearm injuries per 100,000 youths the 17 and younger)
Getting shot: Relatively few minors (ages 17 and younger) are shot in any given year, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s database of fatal and nonfatal injury reports. However, black youths are far more likely than white or Hispanic youths to be injured by gunfire or fatally shot.
Black youths most likely to be shot  | Nonfatal frearm injuries per 100,000 youths  | the 17 and younger)  | 45  | 40  | 35  | 30  | Black  | 25  | 20  | 15  | 10  | Hispanic  | 5  | White,  | o  | '13 White, non-Hispanic  | '01 '02 '03 1904 '05 'OG '97 '08 '999 '10 '11 '12 '13 non-Hispanic  | Note: Hospital emergency departments do not always collect data on the race or  | ethnicity of injured patients. The rates shown above are based on the cases for  | which race /ethnicity data are sava ilable (typically around 80% of all cases).  | Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury  | Prevention and Control  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 