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Terrorist attacks by region, 1977 to 2017

The total number of terrorism-related incidents per year. The source defines a terrorist attack as: "the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a
non-state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation." The perpetrators of the incidents must be sub-national
actors; data does not include acts of state terrorism.

197720171980198519901995200020052010Eastern EuropeWestern EuropeCentral AsiaNorth AmericaCentral America& CaribbeanSouth AmericaEast AsiaSoutheast AsiaSouth AsiaSub-SaharanAfricaMiddle East &North AfricaAustralasia &Oceania