Percent of households with guns by country

Modern handguns (clockwise from top left) Glock 22 * Glock 21 * Kimber Stainless Raptor II * Dan Wesson Commander Classic Bobtail * Smith & Wesson Model 340 * Ruger Blackhawk * Ruger SP101 * SIG Sauer P220 Combat.

This is a list of countries by the estimated percent of households with guns. It is further broken down by the estimated percent of households with handguns. Also, by the estimated percent of adults living in armed households. The data is from GunPolicy.org which is hosted by the Sydney Medical School, at the University of Sydney in Australia. GunPolicy.org consolidates this data from various sources. To avoid problems with vetting the data for hundreds of countries from hundreds of sources, the table below only uses data compiled by GunPolicy.org.

See also: Estimated number of civilian guns per capita by country. It provides estimates of the total number of civilian guns in a country. It then calculates the number per 100 persons. This number for a country does not indicate the percentage of the population that possesses guns. This is because individuals can possess more than one gun.

Table

Note: This is a work in progress. Feel free to add GunPolicy.org data for more countries. See the top of the talk page for more editing notes.

Sources column links to the specific country pages at GunPolicy.org

Percent of households with firearms.
Percent of households with handguns.
Percent of adults in armed households.
Location Year Firearm
%
Year Handgun
%
Year Adults
%
Sources

 Albania 2012 6.5
 Argentina 2008 15
 Australia 2005 6.2 2005 0.3
 Austria 2005 15.1 2005 5.6 2015 7
 Belgium 2010 5.1 2005 5.2 2015 3
 Bosnia & Herzegovina 2010 34 2012 4.6
 Bulgaria 2005 9.7 2005 6.6 2015 7
 Canada 2005 15.5 2005 2.9
 Croatia 2012 4.3 2015 6
 Denmark 2005 12.6 2005 1.2 2015 7
 Estonia 2005 7.0 2005 3.6 2015 3
 Finland 2005 37.9 2005 6.3 2015 13
 France 2005 16.1 2005 3.7 2015 7
 Germany 2005 12.5 2005 4.2 2015 5
 Greece 2005 20.6 2005 1.4 2015 7
 Hungary 2005 10.4 2005 2.2 2015 3
 Iceland 2005 23.5 2005 1.4
 Ireland 2005 12.4 2005 1.0 2015 6
 Italy 2005 12.9 2005 5.3 2015 6
 Japan 2005 0.8 2005 0.0
 Luxembourg 2005 12.3 2005 7.0 2015 5
 Mexico 2005 2.8
 Netherlands 2005 4.8 2005 1.3 2015 1
 New Zealand 2005 16.6 2005 0.6
 Northern Ireland 2005 12.7 2005 2.1
 Norway 2005 26.1 2005 3.7
 Poland 2005 4.4 2005 0.9 2015 2
 Portugal 2005 18.3 2005 3.9 2015 6
 Scotland 2005 6.7 2005 0.7
 Spain 2005 12.0 2005 0.5 2015 5
 Sweden 2010 16 2005 1.6 2015 8
 Switzerland 2005 28.6 2005 10.3
 United Kingdom 2005 6.0 2005 0.4 2015 2
 United States 2017 42.0 2012 21.9

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