Radical Islamic Attacks

Worldwide, since 2010, we've seen an increase of Radical Islamic terrorist attacks, including the number of attacks, deaths, and injuries.   In the table below we look at the top 20 countries or the 44 countries experiences such attacks.  (All info is available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Islamist_terrorist_attacks.)

What is done here is merely some sorting and ranking.  As you can see, Iraq is atop all scales.  The other top countries are well known.  However, exceptions at the high end are France, China, and the USA. Indeed, the USA ranks very high world-side in all categories: count (9th), deaths (14th), and injuries (11th).  In light that six of the top nine countries are well established in terrorism against their own populations, this is remarkable.  It is no wonder that many in the USA are rather cautious or concerned about future terrorists events.

The number of attacks has grown over the recent years, with attacks prior to 2009 relatively small. Including the 2001 attack in New York where 2,996 lives were lost with 6000 injuries would re-scale all rankings considerably.

NOTE: Our use of injury numbers is the minimal offered. For example, injuries given as 300+ is reduced to 300.  In many cases, the actual number is higher - though not reliably reported.

	Count	Deaths	Injuries	Rank(count)	Rank(deaths)	Rank (injuries)
Totals	267	6596	14124
Iraq	43	1338	4839	1	1	1
Nigeria	30	978	1096	2	3	3
Pakistan	24	600	1859	3	4	2
Afghanistan	19	186	694	4	9	5
France	13	176	436	5	11	7
Somalia	10	183	200	6	10	14
China	9	141	428	7	5	6
Egypt	9	332	437	8	12	8
United States	9	89	311	9	14	11
India	8	87	271	10	15	13
Yemen	7	246	382	11	7	10
Russia	6	124	428	12	6	4
Turkey	6	247	989	13	13	9
Bangladesh	5	31	0	14	26	18
Cameroon	5	65	62	15	29	21
Germany	5	17	79	16	18	24
Israel	5	14	28	17	30	30
Libya	5	26	147	18	23	37
Syria	4	1006	134	19	2	19
Australia	3	8	6	20	8	16