Deaths caused by Al-Shabaab in Somalia 2017-2022

Somalia is one of the countries with the highest terrorism threat levels in the world. In 2021, the terrorism index in this East-African country stood at 8.3 points, the third highest in Africa. In the same year, it recorded the third largest number of deaths related to terrorism worldwide. The militant group Al-Shabaab, a jihadist fundamentalist group, was responsible for 89 percent of all terror-related deaths in Somalia in 2021, resulting in 534 deaths.