Afghanistan vs Iraq: Terrorist attacks by method

Afghanistan

411 attacks

in 2021

Iraq

31 attacks

in 2021

Afghanistan rank

1st

Iraq rank

3rd

Terrorist attacks by method over time

Afghanistan currently reports 411 attacks against 31 attacks in Iraq, a difference of 380 attacks.

That makes Afghanistan's figure about 13.3 times Iraq's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Iraq ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 1st and Iraq ranks 3rd of 187 countries.

Indicator: Terrorist attacks by method
Unit: attacks
Source: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) (2022) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 188 places, 9,021 data points, 1970–2021
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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