Afghanistan vs Nigeria: Number of terrorist attacks

Afghanistan

1,453 attacks

in 2021

Nigeria

448 attacks

in 2021

Afghanistan rank

1st

Nigeria rank

3rd

Number of terrorist attacks over time

Afghanistan currently reports 1,453 attacks against 448 attacks in Nigeria, a difference of 1,005 attacks.

That makes Afghanistan's figure about 3.2 times Nigeria's.

The two have swapped places 7 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Nigeria ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 1st and Nigeria ranks 3rd 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.