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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 a thorough 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 104,000 cases of terrorism.

Global Terrorism Index rankings

Rank	Country	Score
1	Iraq	9.556
2	Pakistan	9.049
3	Afghanistan	8.669
4	India	8.147
5	Yemen	7.305
6	Somalia	7.244
7	Nigeria	7.242
8	Thailand	7.086
9	Russia	7.068
10	Philippines	6.801
11	Sudan	6.304
12	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.182
13	Colombia	6.055
14	Syria	5.861
15	Algeria	5.831
16	Sri Lanka	5.680
17	Iran	5.633
18	Kenya	5.266
19	Turkey	5.238
20	Israel	5.155
21	Norway	5.031
22	Nepal	5.017
23	China	4.992
24	Burundi	4.899
25	Central African Republic	4.844
26	Tajikistan	4.597
27	Egypt	4.576
28	United Kingdom	4.509
29	Indonesia	4.505
30	Uganda	4.492
31	Lebanon	4.483
32	Belarus	4.256
33	Ivory Coast	3.990
34	Eritrea	3.917
35	Senegal	3.864
36	Ethiopia	3.732
37	Rwanda	3.729
38	Bangladesh	3.672
39	Morocco	3.599
40	United States	3.566
41	Georgia	3.428
42	Mali	3.389
43	Niger	3.266
44	Spain	3.086
45	Chad	3.010
46	Kazakhstan	2.804
47	Saudi Arabia	2.708
48	Qatar	2.680
49	Chile	2.636
50	Cameroon	2.627
51	Peru	2.491
52	Tunisia	2.358
53	Mauritania	2.181
54	Paraguay	2.174
55	Ukraine	2.163
56	Italy	2.066
57	Netherlands	2.037
58	Greece	2.016
59	Mexico	2.008
60	Sweden	1.755
61	Germany	1.743
62	France	1.731
63	Australia	1.720
64	Angola	1.696
65	Venezuela	1.620
66	Argentina	1.475
67	Ireland	1.456
68	Austria	1.408
69	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.369
70	Zimbabwe	1.360
71	Bhutan	1.235
72	Honduras	1.225
73	Canada	1.177
74	Switzerland	1.173
75	Serbia	1.168
76	Denmark	1.129
77	Portugal	1.129
78	Moldova	0.992
79	Guyana	0.976
80	Azerbaijan	0.867
81	Bulgaria	0.741
82	Ecuador	0.679
83	Macedonia	0.624
85	Bahrain	0.616
84	Jordan	0.585
85	Uzbekistan	0.585
86	Czech Republic	0.522
87	Madagascar	0.435
88	Bolivia	0.415
89	Malaysia	0.415
90	Kyrgyzstan	0.395
91	Libya	0.346
92	Hungary	0.277
93	Equatorial Guinea	0.217
94	Mozambique	0.203
95	Armenia	0.188
96	Estonia	0.158
97	Guinea-Bissau	0.158
98	Kuwait	0.158
99	Albania	0.119
100	Cambodia	0.119
101	Tanzania	0.119
102	New Zealand	0.079
103	United Arab Emirates	0.079
104	Haiti	0.074
105	Belgium	0.069
106	Finland	0.069
107	Japan	0.059
108	Swaziland	0.059
109	South Africa	0.054
110	Cyprus	0.049
111	Lesotho	0.040
112	Benin	0.030
113	Papua New Guinea	0.010
114	Botswana	0
114	Brazil	0
114	Burkina Faso	0
114	Republic of the Congo	0
114	Costa Rica	0
114	Croatia	0
114	Cuba	0
114	Djibouti	0
114	Dominican Republic	0
114	El Salvador	0
114	Gabon	0
114	Gambia	0
114	Ghana	0
114	Guinea	0
114	Iceland	0
114	Jamaica	0
114	Laos	0
114	Latvia	0
114	Liberia	0
114	Lithuania	0
114	Malawi	0
114	Mauritius	0
114	Mongolia	0
114	Namibia	0
114	Nicaragua	0
114	North Korea	0
114	Oman	0
114	Panama	0
114	Poland	0
114	Romania	0
114	Sierra Leone	0
114	Singapore	0
114	Slovakia	0
114	Slovenia	0
114	South Korea	0
114	Taiwan	0
114	Trinidad and Tobago	0
114	Turkmenistan	0
114	Uruguay	0
114	Vietnam	0
114	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 a 2, and more than $1 billion a 3. 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 Peace Index
• United States Peace Index
• Terrorism

References

1. "About the GTI". p. Vision of Humanity. Retrieved 11 February 2013.

External links

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

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