Nov. 25, 2019
The Global Terrorism Index for 2018 was released showing the fourth year in a row that deaths from terrorism worldwide fell.
From a peak in 2014 (due to the rapid rise of ISIS), 2018 saw 15,952 deaths from terrorism, a 15.2 percent fall from 2017.
The annual Global Terrorism Index is published by the Institute for Economics and Peace.
Here are the most significant takeaways from the report which documented terror deaths and trends in 2018: