FOI Ref: FOI/2022/3806
You asked
Please supply statistics for deaths from Islamic terrorism of British citizens at home and abroad, year by year from 1/1/92 to 1/1/22.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
ONS Crime Statistics
The ONS publishes Homicide in England and Wales: year ending March 2021 which is analyses of information held within the Home Office Homicide Index and contains detailed record-level information about each homicide recorded by police in England and Wales.
Figure 1 presents homicide rates in England and Wales, for year ending December 1970 to year ending March 2021. The accompanying dataset is available to download here.
The data presented in Figure 1 includes the following homicide data and are available to download in excel format here.
- Year ending March 2006 includes 52 victims of the 7 July London bombings.
- Year ending March 2017 includes 96 victims of Hillsborough and four victims of the Westminster Bridge attack.
- Year ending March 2018 incudes 31 victims of the terrorist attacks that involved multiple victims, including the Manchester Arena bombing, and the London Bridge attack. It also includes 11 victims from the Shoreham air crash.
For further information about these data, please contact crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk.
ONS death registrations statistics
ONS hold mortality statistics for England and Wales. Figures are based on the information recorded at death registration and includes deaths of people who were usually resident in England or Wales.
For Scotland and Northern Ireland death registration statistics, you will need to contact National Records of Scotland and Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Centre.
ONS mortality data comes from the information collected at death registration. The conditions mentioned on the death certificate are then coded using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10). From all of these causes an underlying cause of death is selected using ICD-10 coding rules. The underlying cause of death is defined by WHO as:
a) the disease or injury that initiated the train of events directly leading to death, or
b) the circumstances of the accident or violence that produced the fatal injury
Deaths where the underlying cause was a result of terrorism are assigned the ICD-10 code Z65.4 'Victim of crime and terrorism'. Deaths registered between 1992 and 2000 would have been coded to the ICD-9 Chapter E990 to E999 'Injury Resulting from Operations of War' specifically, E979 'Terrorism'. Unfortunately, it is not possible to provide any further detail, such as affiliation, for these ICD-10 codes.
Numbers of deaths by cause, sex and age group, for England and Wales, 2013 to 2020, are available via the NOMIS webservice.
Please follow these instructions to use this service:
- Select the geography - (England and Wales, regional or by local authority)
- Select Age - All ages or 5-year age bands
- Select Gender - Total or Male/Female
- Select rates - All deaths, rates or percentage of population for example.
- Select cause of death (ICD10 code search is available)
- Select format (Excel or CSV for example)
Death registrations for England and Wales for 1992 to 2012 are available in our Deaths Registered Series. You can the 2001 to 2020 dataset here. Data prior to 2001 are available here.
Latest death registration data for England and Wales, 2021 and 2022, are available in our weekly deaths and Monthly mortality analysis publications. As data for 2021 and 2022 are still provisional, numbers of deaths for this specific cause are not yet available. To fulfil your request, we would need to create bespoke analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, Public Authorities are not obligated to create information in order to respond to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.
Bespoke tabulations of mortality data for England and Wales, are available to order, subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate.
Such enquiries would fall outside of the Freedom of Information regime and should be made to: Health.Data@ons.gov.uk.
If you have any questions about death registration statistics, please contact health.data@ons.gov.uk.