Afghanistan vs Iraq: Number of terrorist attacks

Afghanistan

1,453 attacks

in 2021

Iraq

547 attacks

in 2021

Afghanistan rank

1st

Iraq rank

2nd

Number of terrorist attacks over time

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 11 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Iraq ahead.

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

Indicator: Number of terrorist attacks
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: 188 places, 9,021 data points, 1970–2021
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Total number of terrorist attacks.