Global Terrorism Index 2025

Institute for Economics and Peace · Published March 2025

Latest edition: March 2025 · Next expected: March 2027

What the report claims

The Global Terrorism Index ranks 163 countries by the impact of terrorism, weighting incidents, fatalities, injuries, and property damage over a five-year window, with the most recent year weighted heaviest. India ranks 14th of 163 with a score of 6.41. Read the direction carefully: rank 1 means most affected, so 14th is 14th most terrorism-affected in the world. The index is built from incident records under a published definition, with current events drawn from Dragonfly TerrorismTracker and earlier years from the Global Terrorism Database maintained by START at the University of Maryland, an event-level record that names the place, group, deaths, and injuries for each attack under a published inclusion codebook, and the weighting formula is documented.

The Credibility Score, dimension by dimension

Methodology transparency / replicability

9 / 20

Source verifiability + measurement integrity

9 / 25

Internal consistency of India’s place

11 / 20

Construct validity / India coverage

5 / 10

Independence and funding

7 / 20

Accountability (corrections, versioning)

2 / 5

Funding and independence: The Institute for Economics and Peace is a non-profit founded and principally funded by Steve Killelea and his charitable foundation, alongside select international partnerships, and it publishes audited statutory accounts as a registered charity. Line-item budgets and specific financial allocations for the Terrorism Index are not disclosed, and the institute maintains an explicit global advocacy mandate to promote positive peace metrics. It is separate from the Government of India, has an international board, and its reports do not undergo formal blind academic peer review.

Sources: Institute for Economics and Peace, Global Terrorism Index 2025

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Updated 9 November 2026