According to a new study, Iraq has been named as a country ‘critically impacted’ by acts of terrorism since last year.
Around 10,000 deaths in 2014 in Iraq have been recorded in the Global Terrorism Index 2015. According to the annual report produced by Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP), this toll is the highest record of deaths for a single country.
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The study also reveals that instead of the affect of terrorism felt throughout the globe, deaths due to terror occurred in five specific countries. The study found that 78 percent of all deaths due to terrorism in 2014 occurred in Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Pakistan and Syria.
Nigeria recorded to have experienced the largest increase in terrorist activities, out of more than 160 countries studied.
According to Global Terrorism Index, around 33,000 people were killed by terrorists around the globe in 2014.
Out of top ten countries on the terror-affected list, seven are recorded as Muslim majority countries, Nigeria having a rough Muslim-Christian divide.
The countries with worst problems relating to internal and external displacement issues are also victimised by terrorism: IEP report said.
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The indexes provided, affirm the fact that Paris attackers are the people, refugees are fleeing from, putting into prespective for Muslims to reject terrorism.
The significant increase in terrorist activities has meant that its ramifications are being felt more widely throughout the world: IEP Chairman, Steve Killelea said.
He also said that it was more striking to analyse how drivers of terrorism differed between more and less developed countries.
“In West, socio-economic problems such as youth unemployement and drug crime correlate with terrorism. Ten of the eleven countries most affected by terrorism have highest rates of refugees and internal displacement. It brings into light the strong interconnections refugee crisis, terror and conflict,” Killelea added.
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