Publication

This second Global Terrorism Index (GTI) report provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism between 2000 and 2013. In particular, the report summarizes trends in terrorism over time in 162 countries and analyzes its changing patterns in terms of geographic activity, methods of attack, organizations involved and the national economic and political context. The report finds that since 2000 there has been over a five-fold increase in the number of deaths, but that the biggest year-on-year increase was recorded between 2012 and 2013. They also found that despite an increase in the spread of global terrorism, over 80 percent of the lives lost to terrorist activity in 2013 occurred in only five countries.