Victims Of Terrorist Attacks Outside Western Europe

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posted on 06 December 2015

by Felix Richter, Statista.com -- this post authored by Catharina Koller

After the attacks in Paris terrorism seems possible anytime and anyplace around the globe.

In this intense and acute atmosphere, Statista has created two charts for Huffington Post that attempt to broaden the perspective: one infographic looks back at the last decades in Western Europe, the other one shows the death toll of terrorism in countries outside Western Europe. These numbers do not give clear answers; they rather lead to new questions: Why does it look like the level of fear in Western Europe is so much higher today than in the 1970s and 1980s? And how should European governments act with so many more people being killed by terrorism outside Europe than within?

This chart shows the number of persons killed outside Europe since 2001.