Kyrgyzstan’s score in Global Terrorism Index deteriorates

Kyrgyzstan's score in the annual Global Terrorism Index 2016, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace, deteriorated.++

According to the index, the country went up from 86^th to 84^th place. The 1^st place is taken by the country with the highest impact of terrorism, and 130^th - the country not affected by it.

Global Terrorism Index measures the level of terrorist activity in this or that country basing on four main criteria:

• number of terrorist incidents;
• number of fatalities;
• number of victims;
• material damage. 

Researchers, as well as in 2015, reckoned Kyrgyzstan among the countries with the lowest level of terrorist impact along with Belarus (86^th place), Georgia (87^th), Estonia (92^nd), Kazakhstan (94^th) and Uzbekistan (117^th place). Tajikistan's indicators are significantly worse - 56^th place.

For the year, Russia has improved its performance in the ranking, moving from 23^rd to 30^th place.

The five countries with the highest impact from terrorism are Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Pakistan and Syria. These five countries accounted for 72 percent of all deaths from terrorism in 2015. 

In general, 76 countries have improved their scores in the index while 53 countries deteriorated. However, the overall score deteriorated by six percent since last year due to many countries experiencing record levels of terrorism.