Number of terrorist incidents by country
Country Number of incidents Deaths Injuries
Afghanistan 1,083 999 84
Nigeria 484 1,805 1,031
Syria 243 2,026 1,303
Yemen 226 762 722
Egypt 224 877 626
Libya 190 289 171
Turkey 181 222 328
Thailand 179 72 270
Republic of the Congo 143 596 193
Mali 141 361 347
United Kingdom 122 42 301
Colombia 117 84 117
Myanmar 115 218 35
Sudan 106 82 176
Kenya 97 126 97
Cameroon 94 228 243
West Bank and Gaza Strip 83 50 75
Ukraine 61 40 64
Saudi Arabia 54 31 69
South Sudan 54 581 258
By country -- 2017
This is a list of the number of incidents labelled as terrorism and not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism). The following tables show the number of incidents, deaths, injuries 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 defines a terrorist attack as the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non - state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation.