Percent of households with guns by country
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
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Sources column links to the specific country pages at GunPolicy.org
Location | Year | Firearm % |
Year | Handgun % |
Year | Adults % |
Sources |
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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 |