2018 Global Terrorism Index Shows That Nigeria is Winning the War on Boko Haram
   
LONDON, Dec. 5, 2018 /CNW/ -
- Deaths from terrorism have decreased by 27 per cent in 2017 to 18,814 globally. This is the third consecutive year of improvement.
- The fall in global terrorism is reflected in the index: 94 countries improved this year, with 46 deteriorating - the highest number of countries to improve year on year since 2004.
- The global economic impact of terrorism was US$52 billion in 2017; a decrease of 42 per cent from the previous year.
- Deaths in Europe fell by 75 per cent. France, Belgium and Germany had significant improvements. However, Spain deteriorated significantly.
- Terrorism is still a global phenomenon with 67 countries recording at least one death in 2017.
- There has been an increase in far-right terrorism in North America and Western Europe, which in 2017, accounted for 59 attacks and 17 deaths.
- ISIL's decline contributed to a 56 per cent reduction in deaths in Iraq between 2016 and 2017. However, ISIL remains the world's deadliest terrorist group.
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