Table 1. Annual gun-related mortality rates nationally, and in intervention and control cities, Colombia, 2008–2016.

Year	Gun-related mortality rate, per 100 000 population
	National	Intervention citiesa	Control citiesb
2008	31.84	20.29	37.88
2009	36.66	33.77	43.25
2010	33.90	31.69	41.98
2011	30.09	26.72	40.48
2012	27.92	19.67	41.88
2013	25.39	16.20	41.86
2014	21.09	14.93	34.56
2015	19.54	12.11	31.10
2016	18.43	12.75	31.20

^a Intervention cities were Bogotá and Medellín.

^b Control cities were all other cities in Colombia with a population of more than 500 000 in 2008, which were, in order of population size: Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Cúcuta, Bucaramanga, Ibagué and Soledad.