With a score of 4.419, France is the 34th country most exposed to terrorism in the world ahead of Tunisia (40th).
The tenth edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) highlights, without surprise, Afghanistan as the country most affected by terrorism. With a score of 8.822, the land of the Taliban occupies pole position for the fourth consecutive year.
Burkina Faso (8.564), Somalia (8.463) and Mali (8.412) arrive 2nd, 3rd and 4th respectively, while with a score of 8.161, Syria closes the top 5 of the countries most exposed to terrorism.
The Sahel region in sub-Saharan Africa is now the epicenter of terrorism, the Sahel with more deaths due to terrorism in 2022 than South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The increase in terrorism in the Sahel has been spectacular, increasing by more than 2000% in the past 15 years.
In the MENA region, there has been a substantial drop in suicide attacks. In 2016, the suicide bombings killed 1947 people; While in 2022, the MENA region only recorded six suicide attacks that killed eight people.
