Global Terrorism Index

A world map indicating the GTI by country (based on 2015 data).

The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) is an attempt to systematically rank the nations of the world according to terrorist activity. The index combines a number of factors associated with terrorist attacks to build an explicit picture of the impact of terrorism over a 10-year period, illustrating trends, and providing a data series for analysis by researchers and policymakers. It is the product of Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and is based on data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) which is collected and collated by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. The GTD has codified over 125,000 cases of terrorism.^[1]

Global Terrorism Index Report 2014

Rank^[2]^[3]	Country	Score	Change in score (Actual year 2013 to 2014)
1	Iraq	10	0.20
2	Pakistan	9.33	0.238
3	Afghanistan	9.213	1.018
4	Nigeria	9.065	0.027
5	Syria	8.108	0.458
6	Sudan	7.747	0.358
7	Yemen	7.642	8.486
8	Somalia	7.6	0.48
9	Libya	7.29	0.966
10	Thailand	7.279	0.096
11	Philippines	7.27	0.073
12	Ukraine	7.2	4.059
13	Egypt	6.813	0.475
14	Central African Republic	6.721	1.638
15	South Sudan	6.712	1.392
16	India	6.686	0.988
17	Colombia	6.662	0.218
18	Kenya	6.66	0.362
19	Republic of the Congo	6.487	0.733
20	Cameroon	6.466	4.945
21	Lebanon	6.376	0.17
22	China	6.294	1.212
23	Russia	6.207	-0.432
24	Israel	6.034	1.118
25	Mali	5.871	0.683
26	Turkey	5.737	-0.144
27	United Kingdom	5.613	0.162
28	Greece	4.976	-0.259
29	Uganda	4.894	2.133
30	Bahrain	4.871	0.198
31	Nepal	4.791	-0.643
32	Indonesia	4.755	-0.021
33	Algeria	4.75	-0.635
34	United States	4.613	-0.055
35	France	4.553	-0.331
36	Mozambique	4.386	0.278
37	South Africa	4.231	0.707
38	Iran	4.222	-0.439
39	Paraguay	4.094	0.391
40	Myanmar	4.08	-0.275
41	Sri Lanka	4.077	0.004
42	Saudi Arabia	4.006	1.234
43	Mexico	3.985	-0.524
44	Tanzania	3.979	0.356
45	Chile	3.969	0.797
46	Tunisia	3.697	0.145
47	Ireland	3.663	0.487
48	Malaysia	3.579	0.056
49	Ethiopia	3.544	-0.085
50	Niger	3.485	0.767
51	Senegal	3.467	-0.067
52	Germany	3.442	1.676
53	Italy	3.364	0.483
54	Burundi	3.342	-0.506
55	Rwanda	3.334	-0.476
56	Peru	3.316	0.051
57	Ivory Coast	3.141	-0.657
58	Australia	3.114	2.894
59	Sweden	3.083	1.37
60	Cyprus	3.08	-0.106
61	Kosovo	3.018	-0.188
62	Nicaragua	2.928	2.928
63	Norway	2.738	-0.674
64	Spain	2.622	-0.112
65	Dominican Republic	2.581	1.394
66	Djibouti	2.567	2.567
67	Czech Republic	2.484	1.62
68	Madagascar	2.444	0.635
69	Bulgaria	2.421	-0.333
70	Georgia	2.373	-0.576
71	Canada	2.297	0.368
72	Macedonia	2.252	0.875
73	Brazil	2.207	0.585
74	Chad	2.142	1.937
75	Venezuela	2.139	1.514
76	Belarus	2.125	-0.653
77	Albania	2.116	1.896
78	Austria	2.088	0.406
79	Honduras	2.077	-0.261
80	Guatemala	2.009	-0.632
81	Belgium	1.977	0.944
82	Kazakhstan	1.881	-0.666
83	Tajikistan	1.869	-0.244
84	Jordan	1.751	-0.207
85	Kyrgyzstan	1.722	1.474
86	Zimbabwe	1.71	0.141
87	Argentina	1.674	-0.682
88	Eritrea	1.636	-0.709
89	Trinidad and Tobago	1.583	-0.646
90	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.516	0.038
91	Morocco	1.446	-0.648
92	Azerbaijan	1.381	1.247
93	Ghana	1.381	1.381
94	Switzerland	1.349	-0.677
95	Iceland	1.219	1.143
96	Liberia	1.219	1.143
97	Guinea	1.187	-0.665
98	Hungary	1.187	1.044
99	New Zealand	1.187	1.187
100	United Arab Emirates	1.045	0.768
101	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.823	-0.683
102	Montenegro	0.659	-0.657
103	Ecuador	0.577	-0.699
104	Netherlands	0.429	-0.596
105	Serbia	0.41	-0.744
106	Bhutan	0.305	0
107	Burkina Faso	0.305	-0.354
108	Mauritania	0.305	-0.841
109	Portugal	0.267	-0.282
110	Angola	0.243	-0.443
111	Jamaica	0.229	0.229
112	Cambodia	0.153	-0.152
113	Guinea-Bissau	0.153	-0.267
114	Taiwan	0.153	-0.152
115	Armenia	0.115	-0.229
116	Croatia	0.115	-0.114
117	Denmark	0.091	-0.09
118	Bolivia	0.076	-0.349
119	Estonia	0.076	-0.077
120	Laos	0.038	-0.038
121	Moldova	0.038	-0.31
122	Kuwait	0.019	-0.019
123	South Korea	0	0
124	Benin	0	0
125	Botswana	0	0
126	Costa Rica	0	0
127	Cuba	0	0
128	El Salvador	0	0
129	Equatorial Guinea	0	-0.129
130	Finland	0	0
131	Gabon	0	0
132	Gambia	0	0
133	Guyana	0	0
134	Haiti	0	0
135	Japan	0	-0.086
136	Latvia	0	0
137	Lesotho	0	-0.086
138	Lithuania	0	0
139	Malawi	0	0
140	Mauritius	0	0
141	Mongolia	0	0
142	Namibia	11	0
143	North Korea	0	0
144	Oman	0	0
145	Panama	0	-0.038
146	Papua New Guinea	0	0
147	Poland	0	0
148	Qatar	0	0
149	Romania	0	0
150	Sierra Leone	0	0
151	Singapore	0	0
152	Slovakia	0	0
153	Slovenia	0	0
154	Bangladesh	0	0
155	Swaziland	0	0
156	Timor-Leste	0	0
157	Togo	0	0
158	Turkmenistan	0	0
159	Uruguay	0	0
160	Uzbekistan	0	-0.286
161	Vietnam	0	0
162	Zambia	0	0

Methodology

GTI Scoring System

The GTI score for a country in a given year is based on a unique scoring system to account for the relative impact of incidents in the year. There are four factors counted in each country's yearly score:

Total number of terrorist incidents in a given year
Total number of fatalities caused by terrorism in a given year
Total number of injuries caused by terrorism in a given year
The approximate level of total property damage from terrorist incidents in a given year

Each of the factors is weighted differently and a five-year weighted average is applied to importantly reflect the lingering psychological effect of terrorist acts over time. The weightings shown in the table below were determined by consultation with the GPI Expert Panel:

Dimension	Weight
Total number of incidents	1
Total number of fatalities	3
Total number of injuries	0.5
Sum of property damages measure	2

The greatest weighting is attributed to a fatality. The property damage measure is further disaggregated into four bands depending on the measured scope of the property damage inflicted by one incident. These bandings are shown in the table below, whereby incidents causing less than US$1 million are accorded a weight of 1, between $1 million and $1 billion, and more than $1 billion. A great majority of incidents are coded in the GTD as an 'unknown' level of property damage, thus scoring nil, with 'catastrophic' events being extremely rare.

Code	Damage level
0	Unknown
1	Minor (likely < $1 million)
2	Major (likely between $1 million and $1 billion)
3	Catastrophic (likely > $1 billion)

Example of a country's GTI Score

To assign a relative number to how a country has been directly impacted by terrorism in any given year, for every incident recorded, the GTI calculates a weighted sum of all indicators. To illustrate, the table below depicts a hypothetical country's score for a given year:

Dimension	Weight	# of records for the given year	Score
Total number of incidents	1	21	21
Total number of fatalities	3	36	108
Total number of injuries	0.5	53	26.5
Sum of property damages measure	2	20	40
Total Raw Score	195.5

Given these indicator values, the country for that year would be assessed as having a raw impact of terrorism score of:

(1 x 21) + (3 x 36) + (0.5 x 53) + (2 x 20) = 195.5.

References

↑ "About the GTI". p. Vision of Humanity. Retrieved 11 February 2013.
↑ "Global Terrorism Index Report 2015" (PDF). Institute for Economics & Peace. November 2015. pp. 90–92. Retrieved 21 May 2016.
↑ "Global Terrorism Index Report". Vision of Humanity. Institute for Economics & Peace.

External links

START - National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, at the University of Maryland.

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