DUSHANBE, November 17, 2015, Asia-Plus — The 2015 Global Terrorism Index, which is the third edition of the index following a 2014 edition, ranks Tajikistan among the countries having the lowest impact of terrorism.
This report provides a detailed analysis of the changing trends in terrorism since 2000, for 162 countries. It investigates the changing patterns of terrorism by geographic activity, methods of attack, organizations involved and the national economic and political context.
The 2015 Global Terrorism Index highlights that terrorism continues to rise. The total number of deaths from terrorism in 2014 reached 32,685, constituting an 80 per cent increase from 18,111 the previous year. This is the highest level ever recorded. The significant majority of these deaths, over 78 per cent, occurred in just five countries; Iraq, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria.
Tajikistan with 1.869 score is ranked 84th among 162 nations. Kazakhstan (1.881) and Kyrgyzstan (1.722) are ranked 83rd and 86th respectively.
Meanwhile, Turkmenistan (0) and Uzbekistan (0) are ranked 124th (countries having no impact of terrorism).
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) is an attempt to systematically rank the nations of the world according to terrorist activity. The index combines a number of factors associated with terrorist attacks to build an explicit picture of the impact of terrorism over a 10-year period, illustrating trends, and providing a data series for analysis by researchers and policymakers. It is the product of Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and is based on data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) which is collected and collated by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. The GTD has codified over 125,000 cases of terrorism.
The GTI score for a country in a given year is based on a unique scoring system to account for the relative impact of incidents in the year. There are four factors counted in each country”s yearly score: total number of terrorist incidents in a given year; total number of fatalities caused by terrorism in a given year; total number of injuries caused by terrorism in a given year; and the approximate level of total property damage from terrorist incidents in a given year.
Each of the factors is weighted differently and a five-year weighted average is applied to importantly reflect the lingering psychological effect of terrorist acts over time.
