Afghanistan vs USSR: Number of terrorist attacks

Afghanistan

1,453 attacks

in 2021

USSR

34 attacks

in 1991

Afghanistan rank

1st

USSR rank

1st

Number of terrorist attacks over time

Afghanistan currently reports 1,453 attacks against 34 attacks in USSR, a difference of 1,419 attacks.

That makes Afghanistan's figure about 42.7 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 22 shared years of data; in 1970 it was USSR ahead.

Afghanistan ranks 1st and USSR ranks 1st 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.