Deaths caused by Al-Shabaab in Somalia 2017-2023
Somalia is one of the countries with the highest terrorism threat levels in the world. In 2023, the terrorism index in this East-African country stood at 7.8 points, the third highest in Africa. In the same year, it recorded the eighth-largest number of deaths related to terrorism worldwide. The militant group Al-Shabaab, a jihadist fundamentalist group, was responsible for 99 percent of all terror-related deaths in Somalia in 2023, resulting in 429 deaths.
