India vs Nigeria: Terrorist attacks by region

India

235 attacks

in 2021

Nigeria

448 attacks

in 2021

India rank

5th

Nigeria rank

3rd

Terrorist attacks by region over time

Nigeria currently reports 448 attacks against 235 attacks in India, a difference of 213 attacks.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.9 times India's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 29 shared years of data; in 1992 it was India ahead.

India ranks 5th and Nigeria ranks 3rd 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.