Context: The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) recently released the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2025, offering an in-depth overview of terrorism trends and patterns.
About GTI
- It is a comprehensive study analysing the impact of terrorism on 163 countries, covering 99.7 percent of the world’s population.
- The GTI scores all countries on a scale from 0 to 10 where 0 represents no impact from terrorism and 10 represents the highest measurable impact of terrorism.
- The key aim of the GTI is to examine these trends and also to help inform a positive, practical debate about the future of terrorism and the required policy responses.
- India Ranked 14th as most impacted by terrorism.
Key findings from the GTI 2025 report
- The Sahel region remains terrorism’s epicenter, recording for over half of all global terrorism deaths
- Islamic State (IS) has expanded its operations to 22 countries and remains the deadliest organization (active in Syria and DRC)
- Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) Pakistan emerged as the fastest-growing terrorist group, with a 90% increase in attributed deaths
- lowest since 2016, dropping by 10% Deaths in sub-Saharan Africa (excluding the Sahel)
- Terrorist attacks jumped by 63% in the West, Europe was most affected where attacks doubled to 67
- In 2024, several Western countries reported one out of five terror suspects as under 18, with teenagers accounting for most IS-linked arrests in Europe
- Seven Western countries are in the first 50 most impacted countries.
- Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate surged globally, with the US seeing a 200% rise in antisemitic incidents in 2024 Attacks are more deadly as the number of terrorist incidents fell by 22% to 3,350, and several countries reporting an incident fell to 50.