USSR vs Yemen: Number of terrorist attacks

USSR

34 attacks

in 1991

Yemen

290 attacks

in 2021

USSR rank

1st

Yemen rank

4th

Number of terrorist attacks over time

Yemen currently reports 290 attacks against 34 attacks in USSR, a difference of 256 attacks.

That makes Yemen's figure about 8.5 times USSR's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 22 shared years of data; in 1970 it was Yemen ahead.

USSR ranks 1st and Yemen ranks 4th of 1 groups.

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.