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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	Greece	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	Belarus	4.256
34	Ivory Coast	3.990
35	Eritrea	3.917
36	Senegal	3.864
37	Ethiopia	3.732
38	Rwanda	3.729
39	Bangladesh	3.672
40	Morocco	3.599
41	United States	3.566
42	Georgia	3.428
43	Mali	3.389
44	Niger	3.266
45	Spain	3.086
46	Chad	3.010
47	Kazakhstan	2.804
48	Saudi Arabia	2.708
49	Qatar	2.680
50	Chile	2.636
51	Cameroon	2.627
52	Peru	2.491
53	Peru	2.358
54	Peru	2.181
55	Paraguay	2.174
56	Ukraine	2.163
57	Italy	2.066
58	Netherlands	2.037
59	Tajikistan	2.016
60	Mexico	2.008
61	Sweden	1.755
62	Germany	1.743
63	France	1.731
64	Australia	1.720
65	Angola	1.696
66	Venezuela	1.620
67	Argentina	1.475
68	Ireland	1.456
69	Austria	1.408
70	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1.369
71	Zimbabwe	1.360
72	Bhutan	1.235
73	Honduras	1.225
74	Canada	1.177
75	Switzerland	1.173
76	Serbia	1.168
77	Denmark	1.129
78	Portugal	1.129
79	Moldova	0.992
80	Guyana	0.976
81	Guyana	0.867
82	Bulgaria	0.741
83	Ecuador	0.679
84	Macedonia	0.624
85	Bahrain	0.616
86	Jordan	0.585
87	Uzbekistan	0.585
88	Czech Republic	0.522
89	Madagascar	0.435
90	Bolivia	0.415
91	Malaysia	0.415
92	Kyrgyzstan	0.395
93	Libya	0.346
94	Hungary	0.277
95	Equatorial Guinea	0.217
96	Mozambique	0.203
97	Armenia	0.188
98	Estonia	0.158
99	Guinea-Bissau	0.158
100	Kuwait	0.158
101	Albania	0.119
102	Cambodia	0.119
103	Tanzania	0.119
104	New Zealand	0.079
105	United Arab Emirates	0.079
106	Haiti	0.074
107	Belgium	0.069
108	Finland	0.069
109	Japan	0.059
110	Swaziland	0.059
111	South Africa	0.054
112	Cyprus	0.049
113	Lesotho	0.040
114	Benin	0.030
115	Papua New Guinea	0.010
116	Papua New Guinea	0
116	Botswana	0
116	Brazil	0
116	Burkina Faso	0
116	Republic of the Congo	0
116	Costa Rica	0
116	Croatia	0
116	Cuba	0
116	Djibouti	0
116	Dominican Republic	0
116	El Salvador	0
116	Gabon	0
116	Gambia	0
116	Ghana	0
116	Guinea	0
116	Iceland	0
116	Jamaica	0
116	Laos	0
116	Latvia	0
116	Liberia	0
116	Lithuania	0
116	Malawi	0
116	Mauritius	0
116	Mongolia	0
116	Namibia	0
116	Nicaragua	0
116	North Korea	0
116	Mongolia	0
116	Panama	0
116	Mongolia	0
116	Romania	0
116	Sierra Leone	0
116	Singapore	0
116	Slovakia	0
116	Slovenia	0
116	South Korea	0
116	Taiwan	0
116	Trinidad and Tobago	0
116	Turkmenistan	0
116	Uruguay	0
116	Vietnam	0
116	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. It should be noted 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. It should be noted 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.

References

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

See also

• Global Peace Index
• US peace index
• Terrorism

External links

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

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