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25197 | Which countries are most worried about terrorism? | untitled-reusable-block-44 | wp_block | publish | <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In a separate post we looked at levels of concern about terrorism in the US. What about the rest of the world? Is it just as worried about terrorism?</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>To better understand the global picture we can draw upon data from the <a href="http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp">World Values Survey</a> (WVS). The WVS is a global research project running for decades, which assesses public opinion on a wide range of values and beliefs. For a range of questions it provides comparable data from across the world. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In its surveys from 2010 to 2014, it asked the question: “To what degree are you worried about the following? A terrorist attack.” Unfortunately not all countries were included in this particular question in the surveys. But the data is complete enough to provide perspectives across the world regions. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In the map we see the share of respondents who said they worry “very much” or “a great deal” about a terrorist attack. Similar to the results we presented above, 52% of US respondents said they were worried. But, compared to other countries this was relatively low. In some countries almost everyone said they were worried: Rwanda, Tunisia, Georgia, Malaysia and Haiti had over 90%. Across many countries in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America more than 8-in-10 said they were worried.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Some countries scored much lower: Argentina with 26%; New Zealand and Sweden with 22%; and the lowest was the Netherlands with only 10%.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:html --> <iframe src="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/worried-about-terrorism" style="width: 100%; height: 600px; border: 0px none;"></iframe> <!-- /wp:html --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>What becomes clear here is that there is <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-worried-about-terrorism-vs-deaths">not a clear relationship</a> between concern about and prevalence of terrorism. We see this in the scatter chart which plots the share who are worried about terrorism in a given country, against its share of deaths which result from terrorism. In most countries the probability of being in a terrorist attack is very low: terrorism accounts for less than 0.1% of deaths each year – in many it is less than 0.01%. But even so, concern can range from 10% to over 90% of the population. </p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>In most countries levels of concern are disproportionate to the likelihood of being a victim.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:html --> <iframe src="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-worried-about-terrorism-vs-deaths" style="width: 100%; height: 600px; border: 0px none;"></iframe> <!-- /wp:html --> | { "id": "wp-25197", "slug": "untitled-reusable-block-44", "content": { "toc": [], "body": [ { "type": "text", "value": [ { "text": "In a separate post we looked at levels of concern about terrorism in the US. What about the rest of the world? 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In a separate post we looked at levels of concern about terrorism in the US. What about the rest of the world? Is it just as worried about terrorism? To better understand the global picture we can draw upon data from the [World Values Survey](http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/wvs.jsp) (WVS). The WVS is a global research project running for decades, which assesses public opinion on a wide range of values and beliefs. For a range of questions it provides comparable data from across the world. In its surveys from 2010 to 2014, it asked the question: “To what degree are you worried about the following? A terrorist attack.” Unfortunately not all countries were included in this particular question in the surveys. But the data is complete enough to provide perspectives across the world regions. In the map we see the share of respondents who said they worry “very much” or “a great deal” about a terrorist attack. Similar to the results we presented above, 52% of US respondents said they were worried. But, compared to other countries this was relatively low. In some countries almost everyone said they were worried: Rwanda, Tunisia, Georgia, Malaysia and Haiti had over 90%. Across many countries in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America more than 8-in-10 said they were worried. Some countries scored much lower: Argentina with 26%; New Zealand and Sweden with 22%; and the lowest was the Netherlands with only 10%. <Chart url="https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/worried-about-terrorism"/> What becomes clear here is that there is [not a clear relationship](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-worried-about-terrorism-vs-deaths) between concern about and prevalence of terrorism. We see this in the scatter chart which plots the share who are worried about terrorism in a given country, against its share of deaths which result from terrorism. 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