Saudi Arabia vs Somalia: Number of terrorist attacks

Saudi Arabia

94 attacks

in 2021

Somalia

125 attacks

in 2021

Saudi Arabia rank

13th

Somalia rank

10th

Number of terrorist attacks over time

Somalia currently reports 125 attacks against 94 attacks in Saudi Arabia, a difference of 31 attacks.

That makes Somalia's figure about 1.3 times Saudi Arabia's.

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

Saudi Arabia ranks 13th and Somalia ranks 10th 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.