Burkina Faso vs Mali: Number of terrorist attacks

Burkina Faso

53 attacks

in 2021

Mali

76 attacks

in 2021

Burkina Faso rank

16th

Mali rank

14th

Number of terrorist attacks over time

Mali currently reports 76 attacks against 53 attacks in Burkina Faso, a difference of 23 attacks.

That makes Mali's figure about 1.4 times Burkina Faso's.

The two have swapped places 4 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Mali ahead.

Burkina Faso ranks 16th and Mali ranks 14th 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.