**Terrorism refers to the advocacy and behavior of creating social panic, endangering public security, infringing on personal property, or coercing state organs and international organizations through violence, destruction, intimidation and other means to achieve political, ideological and other purposes. **Terrorist incidents refer to terrorist activities that are occurring or have occurred and are causing or may cause major social harm. At present, terrorism has become an important factor affecting world peace and development and is the common enemy of all mankind. Doing a good job in anti-terrorism work is related to national security, public security and the safety of people's lives and property.

   Terrorist activities refer to the following acts of a terrorist nature:

• Organizing, planning, preparing to implement, or implementing activities that cause or intend to cause serious social harm such as casualties, major property losses, damage to public facilities, and social disorder;
• Promoting terrorism, inciting terrorist activities, or illegally possessing items that promote terrorism, forcing others to wear clothing or symbols that promote terrorism in public places;
• Organizing, leading, or participating in terrorist organizations;
• Providing information, funds, materials, labor, technology, venues, and other support, assistance, and convenience to terrorist organizations, terrorist personnel, terrorist activities, or terrorist training;
• Other terrorist activities.

   CnOpenData global terrorist attack information data contains more than 200,000 terrorist attacks that occurred between 1970 and 2020, including event ID, time of occurrence, country/region, city, perpetrator, number of deaths (persons), number of injuries (persons), target type, region, attack type, weapon type and other fields.

Time interval

1970-2020

Field display

Sample data

Related Literature

• Cai Weiyi, Sun Chuanwang, Chen Minhao, 2023: "Host Country Terrorism, China's Outward Direct Investment and Its Location Preference Shift", Economics (Quarterly) No. 3.

Data Update Frequency

Updated irregularly

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