In the 1970s there were an estimated 1,644 terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom, compared with 1,315 in the 1980s. Terrorist attacks continued to decline in the 1990s, to 1,214 and to just 325 in the 2000s. There was a noticeable increase in attacks in the 2010s, when there were approximately 925 attacks, and as of 2021, there have been 130 attacks in the 2020s.Â
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