That's because the data is messed up. It's the data for minor, "normal" and aggrevated assult combined, since they aren't split up in the data. That's about 80.000-85.000 (data taken from Brå).
From those, about 2.500 needs to stay at the hospital. I'm missing the weapon threats, to get the proper comparision. But I can do an estimate:
In the US aggrevated assult is weapon threat and/or hospital stay for more than two days.
FBI got the stats for weapon used and the total number of aggrevated assults. In about 25% of the cases, it's done using only the human body (more common than firearms). We know that 100% of those victims ended up in the hospital, since it wouldn't be aggrevated otherwise. Now using that number will miss everyone that got severly wounded by a weapon, but gives us an upper limit on those threatened by weapons, but not seriously wounded.
Multiply 2.500 hospital visits by 4 and you'll get an upper limit of 10.000. It's probably around 5.000-7.500 in reality.
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