Somalia vs Syria: Number of terrorist attacks

Somalia

125 attacks

in 2021

Syria

144 attacks

in 2021

Somalia rank

10th

Syria rank

8th

Number of terrorist attacks over time

Syria currently reports 144 attacks against 125 attacks in Somalia, a difference of 19 attacks.

That makes Syria's figure about 1.2 times Somalia's.

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

Somalia ranks 10th and Syria ranks 8th 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.