Afghanistan vs Iraq: Terrorist attacks by region

Afghanistan
1,453 attacks
in 2021
Iraq
547 attacks
in 2021
Afghanistan rank
1st
Iraq rank
2nd

Terrorist attacks by region over time

  • Afghanistan
  • Iraq
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How they compare

Afghanistan currently reports 1,453 attacks against 547 attacks in Iraq, a difference of 906 attacks.

That makes Afghanistan's figure about 2.7 times Iraq's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 29 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Afghanistan ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 1st and Iraq ranks 2nd of 187 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Terrorist attacks by region
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
187 places, 5,394 data points, 1992–2021
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Total number of terrorist attacks.