The Institute for Economics and Peace has released the tenth edition of the GTI report. The GTI represents a comprehensive study analyzing the impact of terrorism on 163 countries which covers 99.7 percent of the world’s population. For its analysis, the GTI uses the TerrorismTracker database which records “every terrorist incident reported in open sources since January 2007.” Using this data, the GTI creates a terrorism impact score on a scale of 0 to 10 for every country in the study: a score of 0 representing no impact and a score of 10 meaning very high impact. For 2022, Afghanistan once again had the highest impact score (8.822), whereas the United States was ranked 30th with a score of 4.799. Other key findings show that globally, deaths from terrorism declined in 2022 by nine percent and the number of attacks declined as well by 28 percent. However, in 2022 terrorist attacks were more deadly and, on average, 26 percent more people died per attack. This marks the first increase in lethality rate in five years. This year’s GTI also contains a section focusing on the Sahel region in Sub-Saharan Africa. This region accounts for more deaths caused by terrorism than South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) combined. From 2007 to 2022, the number of terrorism deaths in the Sahel region has increased by a startling 2,000 percent, with zero indication that this trend may reverse.
The full report is available at here.