The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, marked a dramatic escalation in destructive terrorist attacks. It began well before that in 1970s but intensity and extent of destruction increased after 9/11attack.As we see in the map below,there is sudden rise in terrorist activities after 2000 and increases continuously till 2017.
The graph shows trend in terrorist activities around the world from 1970 to 2017.
As we can see there is a sharp decline in number of activities in 1996 till 1998 and from 2001 till 2004 after which there is rise.Again there is a rise after 2005 and escalates till 2014 .We observe a steep fall after 2014 till 2017.
The highlighted region shows sudden changes from 2010 to 2017.
This is a world map displaying total fatalities from 1968 to 2016 .As we see in the map below, Iraq has the most number of fatalities with around 28,000 .Followed by countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Columbia and India.
The bar graph shows different regions and the terrorist activities in all the regions of the world .It is clear how Middle East and north African regions have maximum unrest with more than 50,000 terrorist acti followed by South Asia and South America.The least among all is observed in Central Asia and Australia.