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Terrorism

How many Americans are killed by terrorists?

3,222 Americans have been killed in terrorist attacks from 9/11/2001 through 12/31/2016, including perpetrators and excluding deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq.

3,081 of these deaths occurred on American soil.

2,902 of these deaths occurred during the attacks on September 11, 2001.

This is an average of 214 deaths per year.

As of August 2016, the US had spent, or more than $3.6 trillion in current dollars on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria and on Homeland Security (2001 through fiscal year
2016).

This comes out to $1,117,318,435.75 spent per victim of terrorism.