The Global Terrorism Index
The GTI measures the impact of terrorism on each country. The 10 most impacted are no surprise:
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Syria
- Yemen
- Somalia
- India
- Egypt
- Libya
I’ve been to India and Egypt. Almost been to Iraq and Afghanistan.
What of OECD countries. Which of them are most impacted:
- France 29th
- Israel 33rd
- UK 34th
- US 36th
- Germany 41st
- Sweden 46th
- Ireland 55th
- Australia 59th
- Canada 66th
- NZ 112th
Makes you feel good to be here.
There were over 30,000 deaths from terrorism last year.
In OECD countries only there were:
- 731 attacks, up 25%
- 21 out of 34 countries attacked
- 11 countries had fatalities