Global Terrorism Index: Impact of terrorism ‘low' in Bangladesh
The impact of terrorism in Bangladesh has been reported to be 'low' on a terrorism scale as per the tenth edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2023 report, which provides a comprehensive summary of the key global trends and patterns in terrorism over the previous decade.
Bangladesh scored 3,827 points on the GTI index where the impact of terrorism in each country is evaluated on a scale from zero to 10, where zero represents no impact of terrorism and 10 represents the highest measurable impact of it.
The calculation of score takes into account the deaths, incidents, hostages, and injuries caused by terrorism, weighted over a five-year period. A higher rank with a lower score indicates a lower impact of terrorism.
Bangladesh has moved two steps forward in 2022 ranking 43rd among 163 countries in the latest edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI), released last month.
The progress in the GTI index came with a slight change of - 0.579 in 2023 compared to the previous year, according to Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), a think-tank based in Sydney, Australia.
Slowly but steadily, Bangladesh has been making improvements in tackling terrorism since 2017, according to the index based on data from TerrorismTracker, which monitors daily terrorist activities and assesses terrorism threats and risks across the globe.
As per the latest GTI report, Bangladesh was the second most improved country in regards to the impact of terrorism in South Asia, followed closely by Nepal, with both countries recording two attacks and no deaths in 2022.
Pakistan was the only country in the region to record a deterioration in score in 2022, with its score improving by three per cent to 8,160.
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