The number of people killed by terrorism reached a record high in 2014, with almost four in five of these deaths occurring in just five countries, new research shows. Terrorism killed more than 32,600 people last year, an 80 per cent increase from 2013 and the sharpest yearly rise on record, according to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index from the Institute for Economics and Peace, a global think tank based in Sydney. The index defines terrorism as "the threatened or actual use of illegal force and violence by a non‐state actor to attain a political, economic, religious, or social goal through fear, coercion, or intimidation". The death toll was heavily concentrated....
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