Somalia vs Syria: Terrorist attacks by region

Somalia

125 attacks

in 2021

Syria

144 attacks

in 2021

Somalia rank

10th

Syria rank

8th

Terrorist attacks by region over time

Syria currently reports 144 attacks against 125 attacks in Somalia, a difference of 19 attacks.

That makes Syria's figure about 1.2 times Somalia's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 29 shared years of data; in 1992 it was Somalia ahead.

Somalia ranks 10th and Syria ranks 8th 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.