More than 32,000 people across 93 countries were killed in terrorist attacks in 2014, and 78 percent of those victims were killed by terrorism in just five countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Nigeria and Iraq, according to The Institute for Economics and Peace’s Global Terrorism Index 2015, released in mid-November.
The terrorist groups Boko Haram and ISIL/ISIS were responsible for 51 percent of claimed deaths in 2014. The report notes that Boko Haram – the Nigerian jihadist group – was responsible for 6,644 deaths in 2014, overtaking ISIL. Most of the group’s victims (77 percent) were private citizens.