The table illustrates the statistics of various injuries resulting from gun and knife crime in Great Britain between the years 1998 and 2007 and the percentage rise for each degree of injury over that time. The three injuries are fatal, serious, and slight injuries.
Overall, the data indicate that the total number of injuries increased over the years.
To begin, the crime rate in the year 1998-1999 was the lowest, where the total number of crimes was 864. Of those, only 49 were fatal injuries, 162 were serious injuries, while slight injuries were highest at 653. In 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, the total crime rate increased by about 40% compared to the previous statistics, where again fatal injuries were fewest, ranging at 62 and 72 respectively. Serious injuries were 200 and 244 respectively, while slight injuries were almost five times higher. Additionally, in the year 2001-2002, the total number of crimes increased and reached 1877. Of these, 95 were fatal injuries, while serious and slight injuries were approximately 3 times and 15 times higher than fatal injuries, respectively.
Furthermore, from 2002 to 2007, the rate of fatal injuries steadily decreased from 80 to 58, while the rate of other injuries still rose from 416 to 476 for serious injuries, whereas slight injuries showed a huge increase over time. Starting in 2002, the number was 1683, which became 1862 in the next calendar year. Subsequently, the number almost doubled in the years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006. The injury data for serious and slight injuries are not available for 2006-2007, while all injuries showed a drastic increase of around 99% the following year.