Context: Recently, the 10th edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) was published by the Sydney-headquartered think-tank Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP).

• A report based on the Global Terrorism Index noted India has a number of low-level conflicts in some of the border areas but the vast majority of the country’s population lives outside of these regions.

• India was among the 25 worst terror-hit countries but also among 56 of the 120 nations surveyed with no respondents selecting war and terror as the biggest threat to their daily safety, according to the 10th edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI).

About the Global Terrorism Index (GTI)

• GTI is a comprehensive study analysing the impact of terrorism on 163 countries covering 99.7 % of the world’s population.

• It uses data from Terrorism Tracker and other sources.

• It scores each country on a scale from 0 (no impact from terrorism) to 10 (highest measurable impact of terrorism).

• The calculation of the score considered deaths, incidents, hostages, and injuries from terrorism, weighted over five years.

Key findings of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI)

Report’s findings on India

• India was listed among countries with a “high” impact of terrorism and ranked 13th.

• India was among the 25 worst terror-hit countries and among 56 of the 120 nations surveyed with no respondents selecting war and terror as the biggest threat to their daily safety.

• The report lists the Communist Party of India (Maoist) as the 12th deadliest terror group in 2022.

Top five countries with the highest impact of terrorism

Global deaths from terrorism

• It fell by 9 % to 6,701 deaths, from 38 % in 2015.

• South Asia: the region with the worst GTI score

• South Asia remains the region with the worst average GTI score.

• It recorded 1,354 deaths from terrorism in 2022, a decrease of 30 % when compared to the previous year.

• Afghanistan and Pakistan remain amongst the ten countries most affected by terrorism in 2022.

Deadliest terrorist groups

• Islamic State (IS) and its affiliates were the deadliest terrorist groups in the world in 2022, followed by al-Shabaab, Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM).