Terrorism's Spread Since The Turn Of The Century

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posted on 02 December 2015

by Felix Richter, Statista.com

-- this post authored by Niall McCarthy

The Global Terrorism Index recently revealed that deaths from terrorism increased 80 percent last year when compared to the previous year.

The number of countries affected by deadly attacks has also increased dramatically since the turn of the century, in 2014, 17 countries had over 250 deaths while 11 had over 500 deaths. Read more about where Ireland stands in terms of global terrorism in Statista's latest infographic feature in Irish online news publication The Journal.

This chart shows the number of countries that experienced severe losses from terrorism from 2000 to 2014.