Overview of Terrorist Incidents by Country, 1985–2004
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Anna Sabasteanski
This section uses tables to present the annual number of incidents by country from 1985 to 2004. This data was used to build the maps that follow the tables, and was gathered from the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS) and the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base that integrates data from the RAND Terrorism Chronology and RAND-MIPT Terrorism Incident databases.WITS was launched in July 2005, and its methodology is described in Part 6, “Trends over Time: Graphs on Terrorism”
Data in these tables has not been normalized to account for name changes over time; it is merely reproduced as it was entered into the database. For example, in 1985 there were both the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), and the Soviet Union was still intact. Transkei, the first of the nominally independent black homelands within apartheid South Africa, was the scene of two incidents in 1985. Transkei is now part of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Today,WITS separately records the occupied territories as the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
New countries have also been added.When the United Nations began in 1945, it had fifty-one member states. Decolonization increased membership to 126 by 1970. In 2005, largely driven by the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, there are 191 member states. In addition to officially recognized countries, there are a number of regions and areas of interest specified in the database. For example, the final status of several areas in the former Yugoslavia has not been determined. Incidents in Kosovo, Montenegro, and Serbia are documented separately. Chechnya was not allowed to separate from Russia as the Soviet Union broke apart. Although part of the Russian Federation, the area suffers high levels of terrorism and political violence and is also tracked separately. Kashmir, an historic princely state, was divided into two regions, one administered by India and one by Pakistan. With one of the highest levels of terrorist attacks, it is tracked separately. Note that in both Chechnya and Kashmir, most of the violence has been domestic. Domestic incidents were only added to the database in 1998, so the earlier years do not reflect the actual level of attacks.
Areas listed in the database include Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Ashmore and Cartier Islands, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Azores, Bahamas, Bahrain, Baker Island, Bangladesh, Barbados, Bassas da India, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Benin (Dahomey), Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Botswana, Bouvet Island, Brazil, British Honduras, British Virgin Islands, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma (Myanmar), Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Canary Islands, CapeVerde, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chechnya, Chile, China, China (Republic of [Taiwan]), Christmas Island, Clipperton Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Colombia, Comoros, Congo (Brazzaville), Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of), Congo (Republic of the), Cook Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Corsica, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, EastTimor, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Europa Island, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Faroe Islands, Federal Republic of Germany, Fiji, Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, FRY, FRY (Kosovo), FRY (Montenegro), FRY (Serbia), FRY (Southern Serbia), Gabon, Gambia, Gaza Strip, Georgia, German Democratic Republic, Germany, Ghana, Gibraltar, Glorioso Islands, Golan Heights, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Holy See (Vatican City), Honduras, Hong Kong, Howland Island, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jan Mayen, Japan, Jarvis Island, Jersey, Johnston Atoll, Jordan, Juan de Nova Island, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kingman Reef, Kiribati, Korea, North, Korea, South, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Macedonia (Republic of), Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Man (Isle of), Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Midway Islands, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Namibia SWAf, Nauru, Navassa Island, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Island, North Korea, Northern Ireland (UK), Northern Mariana Islands, Norway, Occupied Territories, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine Inter Arab, Palmyra Atoll, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paracel Islands, Paraguay, Persian Gulf, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Islands, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Reunion, Romania, Russia, Rwanda,Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Serbia and Montenegro, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Georgia and the Islands, South Korea, Spain, Spanish Sahara, Spratly Islands, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Sudan, Suriname, Svalbard, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau, Tonga, Transkei, Trinidad and Tobago, Tromelin Island, Trucial Oman States, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, USSR, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City,Venezuela,Viet Nam, South,Vietnam,Virgin Islands, Wake Island,Wallis and Futuna,West Berlin,Western Sahara, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Zaire (Belgian Congo), Zambia, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia),
Only a minority of these countries is subjected to terrorist attacks in the course of a year, and even fewer ever show up in Patterns of Global Terrorism. The table below documents the number of countries affected by terrorist incidents in the course of each year:
Only fourteen are listed in every year:Colombia, France, Germany, Israel, Lebanon, Occupied Territories (Gaza Strip and West Bank), Pakistan, Peru, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Venezuela. Italy was listed in every year except 1995, and India every year except 1986.
Statistical analysis of attacks can be found in Part 6, “Trends over Time: Graphs on Terrorism.”