Iraq vs Yemen: Terrorist attacks by method

Iraq

31 attacks

in 2021

Yemen

58 attacks

in 2021

Iraq rank

3rd

Yemen rank

2nd

Terrorist attacks by method over time

Yemen currently reports 58 attacks against 31 attacks in Iraq, a difference of 27 attacks.

That makes Yemen's figure about 1.9 times Iraq's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Yemen ahead.

Iraq ranks 3rd and Yemen ranks 2nd 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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