The Troubles: killings by year and organization 1969-2001| ��ƽ��

Total number of deaths per year during the Troubles (the Northern Ireland Conflict) from 1969 to 2001, by organization responsible

Characteristic	Republican paramilitaries	Loyalist paramilitaries	British security forces*	Other
1969	3	3	10	0
1970	18	1	5	2
1971	98	21	46	6
1972	263	117	87	13
1973	133	86	32	4
1974	149	123	18	4
1975	125	123	8	4
1976	154	118	16	9
1977	75	26	8	1
1978	63	9	10	0
1979	102	17	2	0
1980	51	14	9	6
1981	71	12	18	13
1982	83	15	12	1
1983	61	9	12	2
1984	48	7	12	2
1985	48	4	5	0
1986	40	15	5	1
1987	71	15	10	2
1988	70	23	11	0
1989	54	18	4	0
1990	52	19	10	0
1991	50	40	6	1
1992	40	38	10	0
1993	38	49	0	1
1994	25	37	1	1
1995	7	2	0	0
1996	13	4	1	1
1997	5	16	1	0
1998	36	17	1	1
1999	4	3	0	1
2000	5	14	0	0
2001	3	12	0	1

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July 2023

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Ireland, United Kingdom (Northern Ireland)

Survey time period

1969 to 2001

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*Also includes five killings by Irish security forces.

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During the Troubles, the 1970s were, by far, the deadliest years of the conflict. Over 2,000 of the more than 3,500 people killed during the Troubles died in the 1970s, with 480 deaths (over 13 percent of the total) coming in 1972 alone. The heavy casualties and violence of the Troubles' early years saw both sides lose some support within their respective communities by the late 1970s, at which point there was something of a de-escalation of attacks, although death tolls were steady at around 100 deaths per year until the IRA ceasefire in 1994. Roughly double the number of deaths have been attributed to republican paramilitaries in comparison to loyalist paramilitaries, although there were some periods in the 1970s and 1990s where both sides had comparable figures. The spike in killings in 1998, the year of the Good Friday Agreement, was due to the Omagh bombing, which resulted in the deaths of 29 people.