India vs Nigeria: Number of terrorist attacks

India

235 attacks

in 2021

Nigeria

448 attacks

in 2021

India rank

5th

Nigeria rank

3rd

Number of terrorist attacks over time

Nigeria currently reports 448 attacks against 235 attacks in India, a difference of 213 attacks.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.9 times India's.

The two have swapped places 10 times across 51 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Nigeria ahead.

India ranks 5th 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.