Worldwide terrorism 1970-2015

To complete our series on terrorism we created an overview on worldwide terrorism since 1970.

dinsdag 26 juli 2016 | Terrorisme, english

First graph, on top, shows the number of attacks, the number of people killed and wounded per year.

At the bottom you can see the breakdown per region (with data). In the seventies (Western) Europe was the main stage for terrorism. It shifted to Central America in the eighties and then to South America in the late eighties.
These days the Middle East and East Asia (Afghanistan, Pakistan) are the focus of terrorists.

Here's another view on the same data:

One of our readers wondered if terrorism became more violent. This is hard to tell. But we created an average for casualties (wounded + killed) per year. In this graph there seems to be a upward trend. The peaks in 1998 and 2004 we cannot explain.

Data: Global Terrorism Database van Start.

Number of terrorism attacks per region

	1970	1971	1972	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Central America & Caribbean	7	5	3	6	11	9	45	24	199	609	1070	1148	996	858	681	780	393	566	495	503	316	729	212	10	180	168	116	117	1	8	14	8	3	8	5	3	5	4	0	9	1	1	1	14	5	1
Central, East + Southeast Asia, Australasia, Oceania	12	7	10	4	7	19	14	12	79	102	88	54	46	35	61	138	114	173	266	221	447	242	430	63	250	261	315	249	66	136	296	224	120	158	107	217	280	368	574	601	483	366	601	1207	1126	1098
Europe	61	129	354	291	318	438	579	773	731	1020	597	488	405	477	545	471	458	418	494	460	448	780	860	227	679	405	651	597	246	374	487	486	232	221	104	175	168	134	372	346	393	291	361	418	1172	1005
Middle East & North Africa	29	55	35	19	42	44	55	211	128	455	437	312	291	334	268	133	196	202	246	464	494	612	1193	209	1051	590	373	550	247	316	272	362	327	295	487	884	1179	1385	1535	1361	1463	1662	2411	4545	6917	5955
North America	472	247	69	64	111	159	125	149	117	79	75	76	86	47	67	44	53	35	30	43	37	40	41	37	102	94	111	137	36	56	41	48	33	33	12	21	15	19	31	15	24	12	35	31	34	62
South America	65	24	20	83	81	55	91	119	222	236	319	383	639	950	1492	1040	1184	1265	1041	1385	1076	1322	1204	85	373	255	517	774	108	134	150	229	162	117	42	49	50	47	144	159	148	106	133	179	281	175
South Asia	1	0	1	1	2	4	4	2	2	34	12	23	20	63	244	161	273	348	800	926	601	677	545	60	376	1051	737	490	136	225	355	385	332	353	369	603	938	981	1743	1946	1978	2135	3800	4606	4990	4568
Sub-Saharan Africa	3	2	0	4	7	12	10	29	46	124	58	98	60	106	126	141	185	174	337	291	450	271	571	55	433	239	217	279	87	143	192	162	121	73	35	59	114	302	380	283	330	494	1156	989	2306	1935

Noot:
1993 data is not complete. The Start database for that year was lost. Data used is an reconstruction.

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