Nigeria was voted the eighth most terrorised country in the world in 2022, down from sixth in 2021.
Terrorist activity in the country has dropped to its lowest level since 2011, according to the 2023 Global Terrorism Index report.
Nigeria rated fourth in the world in terms of terror between 2017 and 2020, and second in 2016 and 2015.
Since 2009, the insurgency of Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province has killed thousands of Nigerians in the northeast region, but the groups were more restricted in 2022.
According to the research, “deaths in Nigeria peaked in 2014 at 2,101 deaths before dropping in five of the next nine years.”
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Deaths linked to terrorism in Nigeria dropped from 497 in 2021 to 385 in 2022.
The number of terrorist attacks also dropped from 214 in 2021 to 120, the lowest recorded since 2011.
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