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Description of chart 1 – Homicide and firearm homicide rates, 1961 to 2011

The title of the graph is "Homicide and firearm homicide rates, 1961 to 2011."
This is a line chart.
There are in total 51 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 3.5 with ticks every 0.5 points.
There are 2 series in this graph.
The vertical axis is "rate per 100,000 population."
The units of the horizontal axis are years from 1961 to 2011.
The title of series 1 is " Homicide rate."
The minimum value is 1.3 occurring in 1961, 1963, 1964 and 1966.
The maximum value is 3 occurring in 1975 and 1977.
The title of series 2 is " Firearm homicide rate¹."
The minimum value is 0.4 occurring in 1962.
The maximum value is 1.3 occurring in 1975.
This chart has a note which reads "1. Data on firearm homicides prior to 1974 exclude manslaughter. Manslaughter accounts for about 1 out of 10 homicides."

Homicide and firearm homicide rates, 1961 to 2011, rate per 100,000 population
	Homicide rate	Firearm homicide rate¹
1961	1.3	0.5
1962	1.4	0.4
1963	1.3	0.5
1964	1.3	0.5
1965	1.4	0.6
1966	1.3	0.5
1967	1.7	0.7
1968	1.8	0.7
1969	1.9	0.7
1970	2.2	0.8
1971	2.2	0.9
1972	2.3	0.9
1973	2.4	1.0
1974	2.6	1.2
1975	3.0	1.3
1976	2.9	1.1
1977	3.0	1.1
1978	2.8	1.0
1979	2.6	0.9
1980	2.4	0.8
1981	2.6	0.8
1982	2.7	1.0
1983	2.7	0.9
1984	2.6	0.9
1985	2.7	0.9
1986	2.2	0.7
1987	2.4	0.8
1988	2.1	0.6
1989	2.4	0.8
1990	2.4	0.7
1991	2.7	1.0
1992	2.6	0.9
1993	2.2	0.7
1994	2.1	0.7
1995	2.0	0.6
1996	2.1	0.7
1997	2.0	0.6
1998	1.9	0.5
1999	1.8	0.5
2000	1.8	0.6
2001	1.8	0.6
2002	1.9	0.5
2003	1.7	0.5
2004	2.0	0.5
2005	2.1	0.7
2006	1.9	0.6
2007	1.8	0.6
2008	1.8	0.6
2009	1.8	0.5
2010	1.6	0.5
2011	1.7	0.5

1. Data on firearm homicides prior to 1974 exclude manslaughter. Manslaughter accounts for about 1 out of 10 homicides.