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“It should be noted that even if the high-end estimate of fatalities directly or indirectly attributed to the Boko Haram insurgency were accepted at face value, they would still represent a small percentage of the overall violent deaths that have occurred in Nigeria over that same period of time.... According to UNODC data, Nigeria had 18,422 intentional homicides in 2008, the year after the violently contested elections.... Based on those numbers remaining relatively constant, Boko Haram would constitute approximately 5 per cent of all violent deaths in Nigeria since their peak in fatalities in 2009.” NigeriaHomicideViolent Death2014Boko HaramMortality Rate Book:Boko Haram: Islamism, politics, security and the state in Nigeria Source: Boko Haram: Islamism, politics, security and the state in Nigeria