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A study published Feb. 8, 2024, in the Lancet peer-reviewed medical journal found that Black women age 25 to 44 in the U.S. are disproportionately murdered compared with white women. The inequity was highest in Wisconsin.
Columbia University researchers examined homicide rates for 1999 to 2020 for 30 states. They used federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data.
The 2020 national homicide rate among Black women was 11.6 per 100,000, compared with 3 per 100,000 among white women, an inequity that has “persisted over time and is virtually unchanged since 1999.”
The gap was greatest in Wisconsin. In 2019-20, Black women were 20 times more likely than white women to die by homicide, the study said.
The Guardian found similar disparities. It reported in June 2022 that between 2019 and 2020, the homicide rate among Black Wisconsin women and girls doubled, the highest increase of any state.
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The Guardian: ‘An unspoken epidemic’: Homicide rate increase for Black women rivals that of Black men
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