NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number
of terrorist attacks each year has more than quadrupled in the
decade since September 11, 2001, a study released on Tuesday said,
with Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan the
most affected.
The number of annual deaths in attacks, however, peaked in 2007 — the height of the Iraqconflict — and has been falling ever since. The survey reported 7,473 fatalities in 2011, 25 percent down on 2007. That figure included dead suicide bombers and other attackers.
Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Yemen were the five countries most affected by terrorism in descending order, it said, based on a measure giving weightings to number of attacks, fatalities and injuries and level of property damage.
The Global Terrorism Index – published on Tuesday by the U.S.- and Australia-basedInstitute for Economics and Peace think tank – ranked countries based on data from the Global Terrorism Database run by a consortium based at the University of Maryland, a commonly used reference by security researchers.
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