At a time where Russia is waging war on Ukraine, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) came up with the notion that despite increasing attacks across the World, the impact of terrorism continues to decline in its 2022 Global Terrorism Index (GTI), released on 1 March 2022.

Indeed, this report which analysed a comprehensive set of data over a five-year period – from 2007 to 2021 – has covered the global trends in terrorism through a thorough analysis of not only deaths, incidents, hostages, and injuries caused by terrorism attacks, but also the advent of advanced technologies behind these attacks. While the latter have been found to becoming less and less lethal, they are however likely to be more concentrated in regions and countries already suffering from political instability and conflicts.

Despite Sub-Saharan Africa accounting for 48% of total global deaths from terrorism, Mauritius remains one of the 22 countries across this region to have recorded no terrorist incidents in the past five years, ranking at the 93^rd spot with a score of zero owing to its political stability and appropriate policies and measures guarding the rights of its civilians.

You can access the full report from IEP here