Global Terrorism Index

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]

The 2014 Global Terrorism Index is the second edition of the index following a 2012 edition.^[2] An interactive map highlights changes to the level of terrorism and the Global Terrorism Index.^[3]

The 2014 Global Terrorism Index rankings

The scores of the GTI on a map. The darker the red, the more the terrorism.

Rank	Country	Score
1	Iraq	12
2	Afghanistan	9.39
3	Pakistan	9.37
4	Nigeria	8.58
5	Syria	8.12
6	India	7.77
7	Somalia	7.41
8	Yemen	7.31
9	Philippines	7.29
10	Thailand	7.19
11	Russia	6.76
12	Kenya	6.58
13	Egypt	6.5
14	Lebanon	6.4
15	Libya	6.25
16	Colombia	6.24
17	Turkey	5.98
18	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.9
19	Sudan	5.77
20	South Sudan	5.6
21	Algeria	5.52
22	United States	5.28
23	Mali	5.27
24	Bangladesh	5.25
25	Nepal	5.23
26	China	5.21
27	Central African Republic	5.19
28	United Kingdom	5.17
29	Iran	4.9
30	Greece	4.73
31	Indonesia	4.67
32	Israel	4.66
33	Mexico	4.66
34	Bahrain	4.41
35	Myanmar	4.24
36	Mozambique	4.01
37	Sri Lanka	4.01
38	Rwanda	4
39	Burundi	3.97
40	Cote d'Ivoire	3.76
41	Tanzania	3.71
42	Ethiopia	3.7
43	Paraguay	3.63
44	Norway	3.57
45	Senegal	3.55
46	Tunisia	3.29
47	Ireland	3.09
48	Malaysia	3.04
49	South Africa	3.04
50	Peru	2.96
51	Ukraine	2.95
52	Uganda	2.93
53	Belarus	2.85
54	Kosovo	2.73
55	Saudi Arabia	2.71
56	France	2.67
57	Guatemala	2.61
58	Chile	2.59
59	Niger	2.59
60	Bulgaria	2.58
61	Georgia	2.58
62	Italy	2.55
63	Eritrea	2.45
64	Honduras	2.38
65	Kazakhstan	2.37
66	Cyprus	2.3
67	Morocco	2.11
68	Tajikistan	1.99
69	Spain	1.84
70	Jordan	1.76
71	Argentina	1.73
72	Brazil	1.72
73	Republic of the Congo	1.59
74	Trinidad and Tobago	1.54
75	Cameroon	1.45
76	Macedonia	1.45
77	Switzerland	1.34
78	Madagascar	1.26
79	Ecuador	1.18
80	Zimbabwe	1.16
81	Guinea	1.12
82	Sweden	1.07
83	Germany	1.02
84	Canada	0.95
85	Czech Republic	0.81
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0.76
87	Burkina Faso	0.7
88	Montenegro	0.7
89	Netherlands	0.58
90	Serbia	0.58
91	Mauritania	0.56
92	Venezuela	0.54
93	Belgium	0.53
94	Dominican Republic	0.47
95	Angola	0.41
96	Australia	0.41
97	Guinea-Bissau	0.35
98	Cambodia	0.31
99	Taiwan	0.31
100	United Arab Emirates	0.29
101	Moldova	0.28
102	Armenia	0.27
103	Austria	0.24
104	Bolivia	0.24
105	Croatia	0.23
106	Portugal	0.23
107	Albania	0.19
108	Denmark	0.19
109	Bhutan	0.16
110	Estonia	0.16
111	Uzbekistan	0.14
112	Kyrgyzstan	0.1
113	Iceland	0.08
114	Laos	0.08
115	Liberia	0.08
116	Hungary	0.07
117	Azerbaijan	0.06
118	Chad	0.05
119	Kuwait	0.04
120	Panama	0.04
121	Equatorial Guinea	0.01
122	Japan	0.01
123	Lesotho	0.01
124	Benin	0
124	Botswana	0
124	Costa Rica	0
124	Cuba	0
124	Djibouti	0
124	El Salvador	0
124	Finland	0
124	Gabon	0
124	Gambia	0
124	Ghana	0
124	Guyana	0
124	Haiti	0
124	Jamaica	0
124	Latvia	0
124	Lithuania	0
124	Malawi	0
124	Mauritius	0
124	Mongolia	0
124	Namibia	0
124	New Zealand	0
124	Nicaragua	0
124	North Korea	0
124	Oman	0
124	Papua New Guinea	0
124	Poland	0
124	Qatar	0
124	Romania	0
124	Sierra Leone	0
124	Singapore	0
124	Slovakia	0
124	Slovenia	0
124	South Korea	0
124	Swaziland	0
124	Timor-Leste	0
124	Togo	0
124	Turkmenistan	0
124	Uruguay	0
124	Vietnam	0
124	Zambia	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:

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.

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:

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.

See also

• Global Terrorism Database
• Patterns of Global Terrorism
• Global Peace Index
• United States Peace Index
• Terrorism

References

External links

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