Afghanistan vs USSR: Terrorist attacks by method

Afghanistan

411 attacks

in 2021

USSR

0 attacks

in 1991

Afghanistan rank

1st

USSR rank

1st

Terrorist attacks by method over time

Afghanistan currently reports 411 attacks against 0 attacks in USSR, a difference of 411 attacks.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 22 shared years of data; in 1970 it was USSR ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 1st and USSR ranks 1st 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

Number of terrorist attacks of unknown type.