{"id":94218,"date":"2026-03-22T14:13:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=94218"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:50:23","slug":"global-terrorism-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/global-terrorism-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Terrorism Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Global Terrorism Index Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Global Terrorism Index, 2026 was published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Global Terrorism Index<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published by the <\/span><b>Institute for Economics and Peace<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (IEP), a Sydney-based independent, non-profit think tank.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a comprehensive study analysing the <\/span><b>impact of terrorism for 163 countries<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> covering 99.7 per cent of the world\u2019s population.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Methodology<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The GTI scores each <\/span><b>country on a scale from 0 to 10;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where 0 represents no impact from terrorism and 10 represents the highest measurable impact of terrorism.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This produces a composite score so as to provide an ordinal ranking of countries on the impact of terrorism.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Key Highlights of Global Terrorism Index 2026<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deaths from terrorism fell by 28 per cent and incidents decreased by 22 per cent<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Six of the ten countries most impacted<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by terrorism are in <\/span><b>sub-Saharan Africa<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, maintaining its position as the epicenter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the first time, <\/span><b>Pakistan leads the Index<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the country most impacted by terrorism.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>India is placed 13th<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the list.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Deadliest terror outfits (2025):<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> IS, Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and alShabaab.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livemint.com\/news\/global-terrorism-index-2026-pakistan-tops-the-list-india-israel-iran-rank-11774003960871.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global Terrorism Index is  published by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a Sydney-based independent, non-profit think tank. 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