Where Terrorism Has Been Striking

Although terrorist attacks are distributed widely around the world, the majority are concentrated in just a handful of countries. Iraq ranks first based on a five-year weighted average of the number of incidents, deaths, injuries and estimated property damage. But while the number of incidents there have climbed since 2007, deaths have actually declined. Today’s chart maps terrorist attacks around the world. View chart: http://econ.st/Sv0OZz