Burkina Faso vs Mali: Terrorist attacks by region

Burkina Faso

53 attacks

in 2021

Mali

76 attacks

in 2021

Burkina Faso rank

16th

Mali rank

14th

Terrorist attacks by region over time

Mali currently reports 76 attacks against 53 attacks in Burkina Faso, a difference of 23 attacks.

That makes Mali's figure about 1.4 times Burkina Faso's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 29 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Mali ahead.

Burkina Faso ranks 16th and Mali ranks 14th of 187 countries.

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
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Total number of terrorist attacks.