Deactivated users are not counted towards the user limit. From https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Managing+Users#ManagingUsers-Deactivatingauser:
Will not count towards your JIRA user license limit. Refer to the JIRA Users global permission explanation on Managing Global Permissions for more information.
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