Number of terrorist attacks

Number of terrorist attacks.

Attacks attacks

Country/area	1970	2021	Absolute Change	Relative Change
Afghanistan	0	1,453	+1,453
Albania	0	1	+1
Algeria	0	1	+1
Andorra	0	0	+0
Angola	0	0	+0
Antigua and Barbuda	0	0	+0
Argentina	21	2	-19	-90%
Armenia		0
Australia	1	1	+0	+0%
Austria	0	0	+0
Azerbaijan		0
Bahamas	0	0	+0
Bahrain	0	0	+0
Bangladesh	0	10	+10
Barbados	0	0	+0
Belarus		0
Belgium	1	2	+1	+100%
Belize	0	0	+0
Benin	0	1	+1
Bhutan	0	0	+0
Bolivia	1	0	-1	-100%
Bosnia and Herzegovina		0
Botswana	0	0	+0
Brazil	6	4	-2	-33%
Brunei	0	0	+0
Bulgaria	0	0	+0
Burkina Faso	0	53	+53
Burundi	0	6	+6
Cambodia	0	0	+0
Cameroon	0	46	+46
Canada	2	12	+10	+500%
Central African Republic	0	18	+18
Chad	0	2	+2
Chile	0	45	+45
China	0	5	+5
Colombia	1	76	+75	+7,500%
Comoros	0	0	+0
Costa Rica	0	0	+0
Cote d'Ivoire	0	10	+10
Croatia		0
Cuba	0	0	+0
Cyprus	0	0	+0
Czechia		0
Czechoslovakia	0
Democratic Republic of Congo	0	142	+142
Denmark	0	0	+0
Djibouti	0	4	+4
Dominica	0	0	+0
Dominican Republic	2	0	-2	-100%
East Germany	12
East Timor	0	0	+0
Ecuador	0	0	+0
Egypt	1	11	+10	+1,000%
El Salvador	0	1	+1
Equatorial Guinea	0	0	+0
Eritrea		0
Estonia		2
Eswatini	0	0	+0
Ethiopia	3	36	+33	+1,100%
Falkland Islands	0	0	+0
Fiji	0	0	+0
Finland	0	0	+0
France	0	19	+19
French Guiana	0	0	+0
French Polynesia	0	0	+0
Gabon	0	0	+0
Gambia	0	0	+0
Georgia		0
Germany		13
Ghana	0	1	+1
Greece	3	11	+8	+267%
Grenada	0	0	+0
Guadeloupe	0	0	+0
Guatemala	4	1	-3	-75%
Guinea	0	0	+0
Guinea-Bissau	0	0	+0
Guyana	0	0	+0
Haiti	0	0	+0
Honduras	0	0	+0
Hong Kong	0	0	+0
Hungary	0	0	+0
Iceland	0	0	+0
India	0	235	+235
Indonesia	0	26	+26
Iran	5	4	-1	-20%
Iraq	0	547	+547
Ireland	1	2	+1	+100%
Israel	0	101	+101
Italy	3	3	+0	+0%
Jamaica	0	0	+0
Japan	2	0	-2	-100%
Jordan	9	0	-9	-100%
Kazakhstan		0
Kenya	0	33	+33
Kosovo		1
Kuwait	0	0	+0
Kyrgyzstan		0
Laos	0	0	+0
Latvia		1
Lebanon	1	1	+0	+0%
Lesotho	0	0	+0
Liberia	0	2	+2
Libya	0	8	+8
Lithuania		0
Luxembourg	0	0	+0
Macao	0	0	+0
Madagascar	0	0	+0
Malawi	0	0	+0
Malaysia	0	0	+0
Maldives	0	1	+1
Mali	0	76	+76
Malta	0	0	+0
Martinique	0	0	+0
Mauritania	0	0	+0
Mauritius	0	0	+0
Mexico	2	21	+19	+950%
Moldova		0
Montenegro		0
Morocco	0	0	+0
Mozambique	0	41	+41
Myanmar	0	216	+216
Namibia	0	0	+0
Nepal	0	3	+3
Netherlands	3	6	+3	+100%
New Caledonia	0	0	+0
New Zealand	0	0	+0
Nicaragua	1	0	-1	-100%
Niger	0	38	+38
Nigeria	0	448	+448
North Korea	0	0	+0
Norway	0	0	+0
Pakistan	1	150	+149	+14,900%
Panama	0	0	+0
Papua New Guinea	0	0	+0
Paraguay	1	3	+2	+200%
Peru	0	5	+5
Philippines	10	104	+94	+940%
Poland	0	0	+0
Portugal	0	0	+0
Qatar	0	0	+0
Romania	0	0	+0
Russia		0
Rwanda	0	1	+1
Saint Kitts and Nevis	0	0	+0
Saint Lucia	0	0	+0
Saudi Arabia	0	94	+94
Senegal	0	0	+0
Serbia		1
Serbia and Montenegro		0
Seychelles	0	0	+0
Sierra Leone	0	0	+0
Singapore	0	0	+0
Slovakia		0
Slovenia		0
Solomon Islands	0	0	+0
Somalia	0	125	+125
South Africa	0	15	+15
South Korea	0	0	+0
South Sudan	0	14	+14
Spain	4	2	-2	-50%
Sri Lanka	0	1	+1
Sudan	0	13	+13
Suriname	0	0	+0
Sweden	0	5	+5
Switzerland	3	2	-1	-33%
Syria	0	144	+144
Taiwan	0	0	+0
Tajikistan		0
Tanzania	0	0	+0
Thailand	0	27	+27
Togo	0	0	+0
Trinidad and Tobago	0	0	+0
Tunisia	0	4	+4
Turkey	12	14	+2	+17%
Turkmenistan		0
USSR	0
Uganda	0	11	+11
Ukraine		10
United Arab Emirates	0	0	+0
United Kingdom	12	40	+28	+233%
United States	468	26	-442	-94%
Uruguay	33	0	-33	-100%
Uzbekistan		0
Vanuatu	0	0	+0
Vatican	0	0	+0
Venezuela	2	12	+10	+500%
Vietnam	0	0	+0
Wallis and Futuna	0	0	+0
West Germany	20
Western Sahara	0	1	+1
Yemen	0	290	+290
Yemen Arab Republic	0	0	+0
Yugoslavia	0
Zambia	0	1	+1
Zimbabwe	0	0	+0
Other
Africa	4	1,162	+1,158	+28,950%
Asia	40	3,426	+3,386	+8,465%
Australasia & Oceania	1	1	+0	+0%
Central America & Caribbean	7	2	-5	-71%
Central Asia	0	0	+0
East Asia	2	5	+3	+150%
Eastern Europe	12	16	+4	+33%
Europe	62	121	+59	+95%
International	0	0	+0
Macedonia		0
Middle East & North Africa	28	1,262	+1,234	+4,407%
New Hebrides	0	0	+0
North America	472	59	-413	-88%
Oceania	1	1	+0	+0%
People's Republic of the Congo	0	0	+0
Republic of the Congo	0	0	+0
Rhodesia	0	0	+0
South America	65	147	+82	+126%
South Asia	1	1,853	+1,852	+185,200%
South Yemen	0	0	+0
Southeast Asia	10	373	+363	+3,630%
Sub-Saharan Africa	3	1,137	+1,134	+37,800%
West Bank and Gaza Strip	0	42	+42
Western Europe	50	105	+55	+110%
World	644	4,916	+4,272	+663%
Zaire	0	0	+0

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