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Nigeria Ranks Sixth in Global Terrorism Index, 565 Killed in 2024

Nigeria has been ranked sixth in the 2025 Global Terrorism Index, up from eighth place in 2023 and 2024. Burkina Faso topped the index with a score of 8.581, followed by Pakistan, Syria, Mali, and Niger. Somalia, Israel, Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, India, Colombia, and Russia ranked seventh to sixteenth. The report recorded 565 terrorism-related deaths in Nigeria in 2024, indicating an increase in fatalities over the past two years. Globally, deaths from terrorism have declined by almost a third since the peak in 2015, with Iraq and Nigeria recording the largest decreases. In 2024, the number of countries affected by at least one terrorist attack increased from 58 to 66, the highest number since 2018. The Sahel region has become the global epicenter of terrorism, accounting for 51% of all terrorism-related deaths in 2024, a nearly tenfold increase since 2019. The Sahel region has become the global epicenter of terrorism, accounting for 51 percent of all terrorism-related deaths in 2024. Niger recorded the largest increase in terrorism-related deaths globally in 2024, surging by 94% to 930 fatalities, suggesting that the gains made in Burkina Faso may be temporary.

ODENIYI, Solomon | Terrorism -- Statistics | Punch Newspaper | Thursday, March 06, 2025