Iraq vs USSR: Number of terrorist attacks

Iraq

547 attacks

in 2021

USSR

34 attacks

in 1991

Iraq rank

2nd

USSR rank

1st

Number of terrorist attacks over time

Iraq currently reports 547 attacks against 34 attacks in USSR, a difference of 513 attacks.

That makes Iraq's figure about 16.1 times USSR's.

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

Iraq ranks 2nd 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.