What is the average number of deaths per episode?

Question

While watching Game of Thrones and seeing people being killed left and right, I began to wonder:

Just how many people die per episode (not just major characters but the minor characters as well)?

I'm just wondering about an average, but a list that mentions the number of deaths for each episode would be good too.

score 21 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 22 '18 at 21:53

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Digg has produced a montage showing every single death in GoT.

The [body] count comes to an unbelievable 5,179 — or over 172 deaths per episode.

This obviously factors in the 5000(ish) soldiers killed at the start of the Battle of King's Landing

Vulture.com uses a different methodology to convey the level of death in each episode of the first season, counting only murders and personal kills occurring on-screen.

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edited Jun 22 '18 at 21:53

Buzz

97,359
18
292
479

answered Jun 03 '14 at 00:13

Valorum

689,072
162
4,636
4,873

7

Which season is that chart at the bottom for? – Anthony Grist Jun 03 '14 at 10:05
1

@anthonygrist - Season one – Valorum Jun 03 '14 at 11:23
Digg will have a nightmare if they try to do this for The Watchers on the Wall. It’s pretty hard to tell whether any given victim of a blow is killed by it, or just injured. We still don’t know whether Ser Alliser survived or not. – Paul D. Waite Jun 20 '14 at 10:03

score 5 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 08 '20 at 10:28

5

There is an amazing bit of journalism done over at the Washington Post, and it has been updated as the seasons have gone on.

As of this time, the page is updated for all of Season 8, last updated May 21st.

6,887 Total Deaths across 73 episodes, for an average of 94.3 deaths per episode.

Season	Deaths	Episodes	Deaths per Episode
1	59	10	5.9
2	130	10	13.0
3	87	10	8.7
4	181	10	18.1
5	246	10	24.6
6	540	10	54.0
7	1096	7	156.6
8	4548	6	758
Total	6887	73	94.3

Methodology

A death is counted only if:

The character is killed on-screen.

The character dies off-screen, but the death is confirmed or assumed due to imminent death while on screen.

Only prominent off-screen deaths are listed. (Prominence is determined mainly by importance to the plot.)

edited Dec 08 '20 at 10:28

SQB

38,680
33
212
350

answered May 17 '19 at 12:12

Cinderhaze

181
1
3

1

Ought to be interesting to see how many deaths they count for S8E5 :( – Geobits May 17 '19 at 12:22
I will update my answer when we actually get the counts for S8E5, but I wonder if I should update my table (for now) to show 3 episodes for S8 – Cinderhaze May 17 '19 at 12:32
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Washington Post article updated May 21st, results updated based on their data. – Cinderhaze May 22 '19 at 13:53
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Thanks for the update. Too bad the WP's numbers seem laughably low for the last season. The entire wight army was only counted as 1200 kills, and apparently there were only ~900 kills during the destruction of KL. Ridiculous. – Geobits May 22 '19 at 13:58
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130 deaths for Season 2 seems very low if you count the destruction of a large part of the fleet attacking King's landing in Episode 9... – Arnaud D. May 22 '19 at 14:15
Adding their methodology to the answer – Cinderhaze May 22 '19 at 14:35

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