Estimated number of guns per capita by country - Wikipedia Estimated number of guns per capita by country This article needs to be updated. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. ( April 2017 ) Map of civilian guns per capita by country from the Small Arms Survey 2007. This is a list of countries by estimated guns per capita ( number of privately owned small firearms divided by number of residents ). The Small Arms Survey 2007 provides an estimate of the total number of known civilian - owned guns in a country per 100 people. These numbers do not clarify which percentage of the population owns those guns. The ownership rate reported is the average estimate taken from a survey from the Small Arms Survey 2007. This survey also gives the minimum and maximum estimates, which are based on other surveys with estimations. Note that for some countries, this margin of error is considerable. For example, Yemen, ranked near the top with an ownership rate of 54.8, has a low estimate of 28.6 and a high estimate of 81.1. While the United States is ranked for the highest gun ownership rate unambiguously, Yemen ( based on the margin of error ) may rank anywhere between 2nd and 18th. Contents 1 List of countries by estimated number of guns per capita 2 See also 3 Notes and references 3.1 Notes 3.2 References 4 External links List of countries by estimated number of guns per capita Data was acquired by GunPolicy.org and are mainly based on second - hand surveys from 2007 ( Karp, Aaron. 2007. `` Completing the Count : Civilian firearms - Annexe online. '' Small Arms Survey 2007 : Guns and the City. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 27 August ) and 1999 ( United Nations. 1999. `` Analysis of Country Responses. '' United Nations International Study on Firearm Regulation. ) Updated figures are calculated figures by gunpolicy.org. The figures cited are estimates for `` private gun ownership ( both licit and illicit ) ''. Italics in this list indicate there are several states with limited recognition. Rank Country Guns per 100 residents Notes United States 101 According to the Congressional Research Service, as of 2009 there were roughly twice as many guns per capita in the United States as there were in 1968 : more than 300 million guns in all. Serbia 58.21 Yemen 54.8 Cyprus 36.4 5 Saudi Arabia 35 6 Iraq 34.2 7 Uruguay 31.8 8 Norway 31.3 9 France 31.2 10 Canada 30.8 11 Austria 30.4 The source for this number is a WFSA white paper from 2000, which in turn cites `` Personal communication from the head of Austrian Arms Traders Assoziation '', actual number may vary significantly. 12 Iceland 30.3 13 Germany 30.3 14 Finland 27.3 1.5 million guns in 2016 in the official registry 15 Oman 25.5 16 Bahrain 24.8 17 Kuwait 24.8 18 Switzerland 24.45 figures from 2016 19 Republic of Macedonia 24.1 20 Australia 24.1 The state of Tasmania has the highest gun ownership in Australia with 28 legal firearms for every 100 people. 21 Montenegro 23.1 22 New Zealand 22.6 23 Greece 22.5 24 United Arab Emirates 22.1 25 Croatia 21.7 26 Panama 21.7 27 Sweden 21 According to the Swedish National Police Agency in 2006, there were a total of 656,000 individuals who had a license for one or more guns ; 6.5 % of the population. There were 2,032,000 guns or 21 guns per 100 residents. Of the 2,032,000 guns, 959,000 were rifles, 726,000 shotguns, 122,000 combination rifles, 88,000 pistols, 55,000 revolvers, 3,000 automatic guns and 78,000 weapons parts. 28 Lebanon 21 29 Equatorial Guinea 19.9 30 Qatar 19.2 31 Latvia 19 32 Peru 18.8 33 Angola 17.3 34 Bosnia and Herzegovina 17.3 35 Belgium 17.2 36 Paraguay 17 37 Czech Republic 16.3 38 Thailand 15.6 39 Libya 15.5 40 Luxembourg 15.3 41 Mexico 15 42 Mauritius 14.7 43 Guyana 14.6 44 Gabon 14 45 Slovenia 13.5 46 Suriname 13.4 47 Guatemala 13.1 48 South Africa 12.7 49 Namibia 12.6 50 Armenia 12.5 51 Turkey 12.5 52 Denmark 12 53 Italy 11.9 54 Malta 11.9 55 Pakistan 11.6 56 Jordan 11.5 57 Chile 10.7 58 Venezuela 10.7 The number displayed in this table is very likely a significant underestimation. The actual number of guns per 100 persons may vary to more, with an unestimated number of illegal firearms held by civilians, around to 9 to 15 million. 59 Spain 10.4 60 Argentina 10.2 - World 10.2 61 Belize 10 62 Costa Rica 9.9 63 Estonia 9.2 64 Somalia 9.1 65 Transnistria 9.1 66 Russia 8.9 67 Zambia 8.9 68 Albania 8.6 69 Portugal 8.5 70 Slovakia 8.3 71 Jamaica 8.1 72 Brazil 8 73 Barbados 7.8 74 Nicaragua 7.7 75 Algeria 7.6 76 Belarus 7.3 77 Georgia 7.3 78 Iran 7.3 79 Israel 7.3 80 Moldova 7.1 81 Ukraine 6.6 82 United Kingdom 6.2 Data for England and Wales only 83 Maldives 6.5 84 Kenya 6.4 85 Swaziland 6.4 86 Bulgaria 6.2 87 Honduras 6.2 88 Colombia 5.9 89 El Salvador 5.8 90 Hungary 5.5 91 Sudan South Sudan 5.5 92 Cape Verde 5.4 93 Seychelles 5.4 94 Bahamas 5.3 95 Dominican Republic 5.1 96 Mozambique 5.1 97 Morocco 5 98 Botswana 4.9 99 China 4.9 100 Cuba 4.8 101 Philippines 4.7 102 Afghanistan 4.6 103 Republic of China ( Taiwan ) 4.6 104 Zimbabwe 4.6 105 Cambodia 4.3 106 Ireland 4.3 107 India 4.2 108 Myanmar 109 Netherlands 3.9 110 Syria 3.9 111 Turkmenistan 3.8 112 Azerbaijan 3.5 113 Egypt 3.5 114 Bhutan 3.5 115 Palestine 3.4 116 Bolivia 2.8 117 Cameroon 2.8 118 Djibouti 2.8 119 Congo 2.7 120 Lesotho 2.7 121 Côte d'Ivoire 2.4 122 Senegal 123 Mongolia 1.9 124 Comoros 1.8 125 Vietnam 1.7 126 Guinea - Bissau 1.6 127 Liberia 1.6 128 Mauritania 1.6 129 Trinidad and Tobago 1.6 130 Malaysia 1.5 131 Nigeria 1.5 132 Sri Lanka 1.5 133 Uzbekistan 1.5 134 Benin 1.4 135 Brunei 1.4 136 Democratic Republic of the Congo 1.4 137 Tanzania 1.4 138 Uganda 1.4 139 Ecuador 1.3 140 Kazakhstan 1.3 141 Poland 1.3 According to police statistics there was 1 gun per 100 people as of 2015. 142 Burundi 1.2 143 Laos 1.2 144 Guinea 1.2 145 Papua New Guinea 1.2 146 Burkina Faso 1.1 147 Chad 1.1 148 South Korea 1.1 149 Mali 1.1 150 Central African Republic 151 Tajikistan 152 Togo 153 Kyrgyzstan 0.9 154 Gambia 0.8 155 Madagascar 0.8 156 Nepal 0.8 157 Lithuania 0.7 158 Malawi 0.7 159 Niger 0.7 160 Romania 0.7 161 Haiti 0.6 162 Japan 0.6 163 North Korea 0.6 164 Rwanda 0.6 165 Sierra Leone 0.6 166 Bangladesh 0.5 167 Eritrea 0.5 168 Fiji 0.5 169 Indonesia 0.5 170 Singapore 0.5 171 Ethiopia 0.4 172 Ghana 0.4 173 Solomon Islands 0.4 174 Timor - Leste 0.3 175 Tunisia 0.1 See also Gun politics Small arms proliferation List of countries by firearm - related death rate Index of gun politics articles Notes and references Notes References ^ Jump up to : Keith Krause, Eric G. Berman, eds. ( August 2007 ). `` Small Arms Survey 2007 -- Chapter 2. Completing the Count : Civilian Firearms ''. Geneva, Switzerland : Small Arms Survey. Retrieved 2013 - 06 - 20. CS1 maint : Uses editors parameter ( link ) Jump up ^ Vladeta Ajdacic - Gross, Martin Killias, Urs Hepp, Erika Gadola, Matthias Bopp, Christoph Lauber, Ulrich Schnyder, Felix Gutzwiller, Wulf Rössler ( October 2006 ). `` Firearm suicides and the availability of firearms : analysis of longitudinal international data ''. Rockville Pike, Bethesda MD, USA : US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health. PMC 1586136. CS1 maint : Uses authors parameter ( link ) Jump up ^ Martin Killias ( 1993 ). `` Gun Ownership, Suicide and Homicide : An International Perspective '' ( PDF ). Turin, Italy : United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2016. Jump up ^ `` Armed violence and gun laws, country by country ''. Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia : GunPolicy.org. Retrieved 2016 - 03 - 20. The figures by gunpolicy.org are still based mainly on ' Karp, Aaron. 2007 ' and ' United Nations. 1999 '. They are only adjusted by calculation for more recent years, at best. ^ Jump up to : `` Guns In America, By The Numbers ''. National Public Radio. January 5, 2016. Jump up ^ `` US Population by Year ''. multpl.com. Jump up ^ `` Gun Control Legislation '' ( PDF ). Congressional Research Service. November 14, 2012 : 9. Jump up ^ `` Serbia - South Eastern Europe : Weapons Possession Per 100 Inhabitants ''. Jump up ^ Alpers, Philip. `` Guns in Cyprus -- Firearms, gun law and gun control ''. Jump up ^ Császár, Franz ( 2000 ). `` Gun Control and the Reduction of the Number of Arms '' ( PDF ). Gun Owners of South Africa. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on 2013 - 07 - 21. Jump up ^ ( ( Cite web url = https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-8588611 Jump up ^ `` Guns in Switzerland : Facts, Figures and Firearm Law ''. Gunpolicy.org. University of Sydney School of Public Health. 2016. Retrieved 2017 - 04 - 20. External link in work = ( help ) Jump up ^ `` Licensed gun owners are stockpiling extra weapons, more than a million guns have been registered since 2012 ''. Adelaide Now. 2012. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 03. Jump up ^ Alpers, Philip. `` Guns in Tasmania -- Firearms, gun law and gun control ''. www.gunpolicy.org. Retrieved 2017 - 08 - 11. Jump up ^ `` Arms legislation etc '' ( PDF ) ( in Swedish ). National Police control ice. 2006 - 05 - 31. CS1 maint : Unrecognized language ( link ) Jump up ^ P.G. ( 7 July 2014 ). `` Crime in Venezuela : Guns and money ''. The Economist. The Economist. Retrieved 4 December 2015. Jump up ^ `` Liczba osób posiadających pozowlenie na broń - stan na dzień 31 grudnia 2015 r '' ( in Polish ). Police. Retrieved 2016 - 02 - 03. 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Question: how many guns are in the united states
Answer: more than 300 million