The Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank, published the 2024 Global Terrorism Index (GTI), in which Georgia is named among the zero-terrorism countries and ranks the last (89th place) among 50 countries.
The report mentions that the situation in Georgia in terms of threats of global terrorism improved by 2,629 points in 2013-2023. According to the 2012 report, Georgia was ranked 41st.
The authors of the report say that, globally, overall, deaths from terrorism rose to 8,352 in 2023, a 22% increase from the prior year. The number of terrorist attacks decreased to 3,350 in 2023, a reduction of 23% from the 4,321 attacks in 2022.
Pakistan recorded the most incidents of any country, with 490 attacks recorded. The rise in deaths but fall in number of incidents shows how terrorism is becoming more concentrated and more lethal. The number of countries recording a death from terrorism fell to 41, considerably lower than the peak of 57 countries recorded in 2015 and the 44 recorded in 2022.
Israel had the largest increase in terrorism deaths, increasing from 24 to 1,210. The attack in Israel by Hamas was the single largest terrorist attack since the inception of the GTI, the biggest since 9/11, and one of the largest terrorist attacks in history.
The Islamic State (IS) and its affiliates remained the world’s deadliest terrorist group in 2023, despite deaths attributed to the group and its affiliates declining by 17% from 1,963 to 1,636 deaths.
