Nigeria vs Yemen: Terrorist attacks by region

Nigeria

448 attacks

in 2021

Yemen

290 attacks

in 2021

Nigeria rank

3rd

Yemen rank

4th

Terrorist attacks by region over time

Nigeria currently reports 448 attacks against 290 attacks in Yemen, a difference of 158 attacks.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.5 times Yemen's.

The two have swapped places 11 times across 29 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Yemen ahead.

Nigeria ranks 3rd and Yemen ranks 4th 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.