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25191 What share of deaths are from terrorism? untitled-reusable-block-42 wp_block publish <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Terrorism often <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from">dominates media coverage</a>. We are informed about attacks as soon as they happen and many attacks claim the headlines. Whilst our attention is drawn to these events – just as the terrorists intend – such intense coverage can make it difficult to contextualize the true extent of terrorism. This is because the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic">availability heuristic</a>: our perceptions are heavily influenced by the most recent examples of it. We’re biased to recent events in the news because we can recall them quickly.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>How many people die from terrorism relative to other causes?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In this chart we see global terrorism deaths in the context of deaths from all causes. The size of the big rectangle corresponds to the number of deaths in 2017. The share of deaths from terrorism are shown in red. A very small fraction.&nbsp;<br><br> Close to <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-number-of-deaths-by-cause">56 million people died in 2017</a>; just over 26,000 of them from terrorism.{ref}In the treemap we have rounded the number of deaths to the nearest thousand. Based on estimates from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) <a href="http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool">Global Burden of Disease study</a>, 55,945,729 people in the world died in 2017. The <a href="https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/">Global Terrorism Database</a> estimates that 26,445 people died in terrorist attacks in 2017.{/ref} Every 2000th death – 0.05% – were from terrorism.{ref}We calculate this as deaths from terrorism divided by the total number of deaths, multiplied by 100. So: [26,445 / 55,945,729 * 100 = 0.05%].{/ref}&nbsp;</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>But terrorist activity can vary a lot from year-to-year. Maybe 2017 was a particularly low or high year. When we look at the trend – also shown in chart form – over the past few decades we see it hovered from 0.01% to 0.02% over the 1990s and early 2000s; increased to 0.08% in 2014; before falling to 0.05% in 2017. It was therefore a relatively high year for terrorist deaths, but not the peak. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:image {"id":25190} --> <figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://owid.cloud/app/uploads/2019/10/What-share-of-deaths-are-from-terrorism-800x502.png" alt="" class="wp-image-25190"/></figure> <!-- /wp:image --> <!-- wp:html --> <figure><iframe src="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/terrorism-percent-deaths?tab=chart&amp;country=OWID_WRL"></iframe></figure> <!-- /wp:html --> 
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 Terrorism often [dominates media coverage](https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die-from). We are informed about attacks as soon as they happen and many attacks claim the headlines. Whilst our attention is drawn to these events – just as the terrorists intend – such intense coverage can make it difficult to contextualize the true extent of terrorism. This is because the [availability heuristic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Availability_heuristic): our perceptions are heavily influenced by the most recent examples of it. We’re biased to recent events in the news because we can recall them quickly. How many people die from terrorism relative to other causes? In this chart we see global terrorism deaths in the context of deaths from all causes. The size of the big rectangle corresponds to the number of deaths in 2017. The share of deaths from terrorism are shown in red. A very small fraction.  Close to [56 million people died in 2017](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/total-number-of-deaths-by-cause); just over 26,000 of them from terrorism.{ref}In the treemap we have rounded the number of deaths to the nearest thousand. Based on estimates from the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) [Global Burden of Disease study](http://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-results-tool), 55,945,729 people in the world died in 2017. The [Global Terrorism Database](https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/) estimates that 26,445 people died in terrorist attacks in 2017.{/ref} Every 2000th death – 0.05% – were from terrorism.{ref}We calculate this as deaths from terrorism divided by the total number of deaths, multiplied by 100. So: [26,445 / 55,945,729 * 100 = 0.05%].{/ref}  But terrorist activity can vary a lot from year-to-year. Maybe 2017 was a particularly low or high year. When we look at the trend – also shown in chart form – over the past few decades we see it hovered from 0.01% to 0.02% over the 1990s and early 2000s; increased to 0.08% in 2014; before falling to 0.05% in 2017. It was therefore a relatively high year for terrorist deaths, but not the peak.  <Image filename="What-share-of-deaths-are-from-terrorism.png" alt=""/> <Chart url="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/terrorism-percent-deaths?tab=chart&country=OWID_WRL"/> 
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