Terror Deaths Down 44 Percent in Three Years, but Terrorism Still Widespread
L - Cover of the newly published Global Terrorism Index 2018. R - Rabbi Israel Kozlovsky, director of Nariman Light (Chabad) House, gestures at shrapnel marks from the 2008 Mumbai militant attacks that claimed 166 lives, during a media visit on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the attacks in Mumbai, India, on Nov. 25, 2018. Punit Paranje/AFP/Getty Images
A new study into terrorism across the globe reveals a notable drop in terror-related deaths, but shows that violence associated with extremism remains a significant threat.
Researchers at the Institute for Economics and Peace, a think tank that works to “develop metrics to analyze peace and to quantify its economic value,” compiled the newly published report, known as the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2018.
Terrorism By the Numbers
94: The number of countries that recorded improvements in the Global Terrorism Index
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