How to perceive terrorism in the US and the world

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Residents of the United States consider international terrorism the main threat to the nation. These are the data surveyconducted by Gallup at the start of 2016. Immediately 79% of Americans express fears in connection with the attacks.

The greatest resonance in the last year caused attacks on the capital of France Paris, whose victims are 129 people.

For the first time, Gallup featured cyberterrorism, which immediately became one of the top three key threats, according to Americans (73%).

Infographics: Statista

For example, Russia's military power among the threats against the United States called only 39% of Americans.

IG next to the DNI

Among the top ten terrorist groups responsible for the largest number of attacks in 2015, the absolute leader, according to the portal Statista.com, is the Islamic State.

In total, IS militants have claimed responsibility for 3317 terrorist attacks around the world. This is almost 7 times more than that of Jabhat al-Nusra and the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), which are next in the ranking.

On account pro-Russian separatists, fighting the Ukrainian military in the Donbass, reportedly carried out 526 acts of terror. Supporters of the “Luhansk People's Republic” (LPR) had 268 attacks and overall seventh place.

Infographics: Statista

Interestingly, in the last at the moment Global Terrorism Index (GTI-2015), which analyzed data for 15 years - from 2000 to 2014 - Ukraine ranked 12th (index - 7,2 on a ten-point scale), and Russia - 23rd (index - 6,2).

France, which found itself at the epicenter of terrorist activity in 2015, was in 36th place overall, just behind the United States (index - 4,6) - and third among the European Union countries (index — 4,5) in the rating, which makes up the Institute of Economics and Peace.

Belgian surge

Belgium, in which this week thundered three explosions at once and at least 31 people died in the ranking GTI-2015 occupied a low and quite safe 82 place (index - 1,9).

At the same time, it was from Belgium, as it turned out, that the organizers and perpetrators of the attacks in November 2015 arrived in Paris, and the suburb of Brussels, Molenbeck, now openly called by the Belgian authorities “political the capital of radical Islam in continental Europe."

Last week the belgian police detained the alleged organizer terrorist attacks in Paris.

Total in 2014 year, according to GTI, more than 32 thousand terrorist attacks were committed in the world - this is the highest figure in history.

Map (Europe, Asia, Africa): GTI 2015

Asia and Africa

Despite the general resonance caused by the attacks in Europe and America, they constitute a small part compared to the attacks that radical groups carry out in Asia and Africa. It is representatives of these continents that occupy places in the entire top ten of the rating.

In the first positions are Iraq (index - 10 out of 10), Nigeria and Afghanistan. More than half of those killed by terrorists in 2014 were killed in Iraq and Nigeria by militants from the Islamic State, Boko Haram and other organizations.

However, public opinion around the world is much less likely to react to crimes committed in unstable regions of Africa and the Middle East, including Israel (24th place in the GTI ranking - below Russia).

The latest act of terrorism against the citizens of Russia at the moment was the catastrophe of the Russian airbus flying from Sharm el-Sheikh of Egypt to St. Petersburg. In the Sinai, 224 people died.

Terrorism in the West

According to the GTI report, excluding the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States, only 0,5% of deaths from terrorism have been recorded in Western countries since 2000 (including 11/2,6 - XNUMX%).

70% of terrorist attacks in the West since 2006 have been carried out by lone terrorists. The remaining 30% were by groups of attackers consisting of at least three people, or by unknown individuals.

Islamic fundamentalism over the past 9 years (before 2015) has not been the main source of terrorist threat in Western countries. 80% of crimes were committed on the basis of extremism, nationalism and other forms of hatred.

Terrorist "trends"

It is noteworthy that the number of victims of terrorist attacks in the world is about 13 times less than other cases of violent death. On average, at least 437 thousands of people die every year in various crimes.

Increasingly, individuals are victims of terrorists. From 2013 to 2014, this number increased by 172%.

Thousands of fighters are sent to Iraq and Syria every year. From 2011 to mid-2015 - about 25-30 thousand mercenaries. Half of them are from the Middle East and North Africa.

Despite the fact that there are many terrorist groups in the world, whose ideology is based on religion, there are fewer attacks on religious institutions and objects.

Losses from terrorism are about 32 times lower than from a different kind of crime and murder. In addition, the cost of countering terrorism far exceeds the damage caused by terrorist acts. This is about 117 billion dollars annually.

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