India, 4 Others Struck By 55% of Global Terror Attacks in 2015

India, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Nigeria were most affected by terrorism last year.

A person being evacuated after a shooting outside the Bataclan theatre in Paris. (Photo: AP)

India and four other countries accounted for more than half of terror attacks across the globe, new data has found.

“Almost 55 percent of all attacks took place in five countries – India, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Nigeria,” said the US State Department in its report on global terrorism 2015.

Data compiled by the University of Maryland for the US State Department. (Infographics: Rahul Gupta)

However, terrorist attacks in 2015 declined by 13 percent compared to 2014. Fatalities caused by terrorist activities fell 14 percent.

The numbers of attacks and deaths, however, increased in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, the Philippines, Syria and Turkey. The report said that attacks were more ‘decentralised and diffused’, involving multiple terror groups, and concentrated geographically.

The terrorist attacks in Pakistan decreased in 2015 compared to 2014, which was a particularly violent year for the country.

(With inputs from Reuters and PTI)