Global Terrorism Index
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) is a report published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human wellbeing and progress. It covers 163 countries that make up 99.7% of the world's population and provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism since 2000. It produces a composite score in order to provide an ordinal ranking of countries on the impact of terrorism.
The aim of the report is to examine trends and to help inform a positive and practical debate about the future of terrorism and the required policy responses. It 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 an explicit picture of the impact of terrorism, illustrating trends, and providing a data series for analysis by researchers and policymakers. The GTI 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.
Defining terrorism is not a straightforward matter. There is no single internationally accepted definition of what constitutes terrorism. The GTI therefore defines terrorism 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.’
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) is a report published annually by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human wellbeing and progress. It covers 163 countries that make up 99.7% of the world's population and provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism since 2000. It produces a composite score in order to provide an ordinal ranking of countries on the impact of terrorism.
The aim of the report is to examine trends and to help inform a positive and practical debate about the future of terrorism and the required policy responses. It 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 an explicit picture of the impact of terrorism, illustrating trends, and providing a data series for analysis by researchers and policymakers. The GTI 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.
Defining terrorism is not a straightforward matter. There is no single internationally accepted definition of what constitutes terrorism. The GTI therefore defines terrorism 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.’
SUBJECT Variables
OVERALL PERFORMANCE
The index factors performance based on incidents occurring in the preceding year. As a result, the 2023 index is reflective of the impact of terrorism in India in 2022.
- India's overall score on the GTI 2023 improved to 7.18 on a scale of 10, from 7.43 a year earlier. This signifies that there was a lesser impact of terrorism in India in 2022 compared to 2021.
- Correspondingly, India's world ranking too improved to 13th position amongst 163 countries on the index. Though the rank improved over the previous year, India yet is one of the top 12 countries most impacted by terrorism.
- India's overall score has marginally improved from 7.75 in 2014 to 7.18 on a scale of 10, in a period of 9 years.
- In 2023, India's score of 7.18 was much higher than the world average of 5.28.
- From a global perspective, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Somalia, Mali, Syria, Pakistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Myanmar, Niger, Cameroon, and Mozambique, followed by India made up the 13 countries that topped the list as the countries most impacted by Terrorism as per GTI 2023.
- Singapore, Oman, and Portugal were among the 71 countries that achieved a perfect score of 0 signifying that they were not at all impacted by terrorism.
PERFORMANCE FACTORS
The index factors performance based on incidents occurring in the preceding year. As a result, the 2022 index is reflective of the impact of terrorism in India in 2021.
- In comparison to 2020, there were lesser incidents, fatalities, and injuries in 2021.
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