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asia-owid-terrorist-attacks-by-method

country_name stringclasses 37 values	country_iso3 stringclasses 37 values	year int64 1.97k 2.02k	Unknown float64 0 918	Hijacking float64 0 11	Hostage barricading float64 0 15	Unarmed assault float64 0 51	Infrastructure attack float64 0 203	Hostage kidnapping float64 0 194	Assassination float64 0 259	Armed assault float64 0 638	Bombing float64 0 2.87k
Afghanistan	AFG	1,970	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,971	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,972	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,973	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,974	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,975	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,976	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,977	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,978	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,979	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1
Afghanistan	AFG	1,980	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,981	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,982	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,983	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,984	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,985	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,986	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,987	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Afghanistan	AFG	1,988	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11
Afghanistan	AFG	1,989	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	9
Afghanistan	AFG	1,990	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Afghanistan	AFG	1,991	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	2	23
Afghanistan	AFG	1,992	0	0	2	0	3	3	11	4	13
Afghanistan	AFG	1,994	0	0	1	0	0	2	2	0	4
Afghanistan	AFG	1,995	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	2
Afghanistan	AFG	1,996	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Afghanistan	AFG	1,997	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Afghanistan	AFG	1,998	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Afghanistan	AFG	1,999	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	7
Afghanistan	AFG	2,000	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	12
Afghanistan	AFG	2,001	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	2	10
Afghanistan	AFG	2,002	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	32
Afghanistan	AFG	2,003	0	0	0	0	6	2	5	17	70
Afghanistan	AFG	2,004	6	0	0	1	1	7	6	28	39
Afghanistan	AFG	2,005	9	0	0	1	6	13	22	40	64
Afghanistan	AFG	2,006	9	0	0	0	18	20	16	69	151
Afghanistan	AFG	2,007	7	0	0	0	13	26	17	94	185
Afghanistan	AFG	2,008	18	1	0	3	24	50	36	94	188
Afghanistan	AFG	2,009	11	3	1	6	26	48	37	95	276
Afghanistan	AFG	2,010	26	1	0	7	17	78	57	90	266
Afghanistan	AFG	2,011	15	1	1	3	5	40	55	65	236
Afghanistan	AFG	2,012	74	0	2	15	26	57	72	337	886
Afghanistan	AFG	2,013	74	0	0	6	29	86	84	335	829
Afghanistan	AFG	2,014	162	2	6	2	47	124	109	355	1,017
Afghanistan	AFG	2,015	187	1	9	15	65	194	178	541	738
Afghanistan	AFG	2,016	305	2	4	9	32	148	119	358	639
Afghanistan	AFG	2,017	267	2	2	4	35	112	124	338	531
Afghanistan	AFG	2,018	498	5	15	5	42	174	113	386	539
Afghanistan	AFG	2,019	661	4	3	2	21	114	127	279	595
Afghanistan	AFG	2,020	918	3	2	1	24	150	203	467	836
Afghanistan	AFG	2,021	411	2	1	3	22	98	138	287	491
Armenia	ARM	1,991	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	1,992	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
Armenia	ARM	1,994	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3
Armenia	ARM	1,995	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Armenia	ARM	1,996	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Armenia	ARM	1,997	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	1,998	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Armenia	ARM	1,999	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Armenia	ARM	2,000	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Armenia	ARM	2,001	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,002	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,003	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,004	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,005	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,006	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,007	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Armenia	ARM	2,008	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,009	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,010	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,011	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,012	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,013	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,014	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,015	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0
Armenia	ARM	2,016	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Armenia	ARM	2,017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Armenia	ARM	2,019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,020	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Armenia	ARM	2,021	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	1,991	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
Azerbaijan	AZE	1,992	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	7	3
Azerbaijan	AZE	1,994	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	4
Azerbaijan	AZE	1,995	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	1,996	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	1,997	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	1,998	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	1,999	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,001	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	1
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,002	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,003	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,004	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,005	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,006	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,007	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,008	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,009	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Azerbaijan	AZE	2,010	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Terrorist Attacks By Method | Asia (Our World in Data)

🌏 2,178 observations · 46 Asia countries · 1970–2021 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia

TL;DR

This dataset contains 2,178 observations of Terrorist Attacks By Method data across 46 Asia countries, spanning 1970–2021.

About the source

Source: Our World in Data
Publisher: Our World in Data
License: cc-by-4.0
Topic: Terrorist Attacks By Method

Geographic coverage

46 Asia countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
`AFG`	51	1970	2021
`ARE`	51	1970	2021
`BHR`	51	1970	2021
`BGD`	51	1970	2021
`BTN`	51	1970	2021
`BRN`	51	1970	2021
`IDN`	51	1970	2021
`IND`	51	1970	2021
`CHN`	51	1970	2021
`CYP`	51	1970	2021
`IRN`	51	1970	2021
`JOR`	51	1970	2021
`ISR`	51	1970	2021
`IRQ`	51	1970	2021
`TUR`	51	1970	2021
...	31 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`country_name`	`string`	—	`Afghanistan`
`country_iso3`	`string`	—	`AFG`
`year`	`int64`	—	`1970`
`Unknown`	`float64`	—	`0.0`
`Hijacking`	`float64`	—	`0.0`
`Hostage barricading`	`float64`	—	`0.0`
`Unarmed assault`	`float64`	—	`0.0`
`Infrastructure attack`	`float64`	—	`0.0`
`Hostage kidnapping`	`float64`	—	`0.0`
`Assassination`	`float64`	—	`0.0`
`Armed assault`	`float64`	—	`0.0`
`Bombing`	`float64`	—	`0.0`

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

ds = load_dataset("electricsheepasia/asia-owid-terrorist-attacks-by-method")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

indonesia = df[df["country_iso3"] == "IDN"]

Time-series for a single indicator

sample = df.sort_values("year")
sample.plot(x="year", y="Unknown")

Citation

@misc{asia_owid_terrorist_attacks_by_method_2021,
  title        = {Terrorist Attacks By Method | Asia (Our World in Data)},
  author       = {Our World in Data},
  year         = {2021},
  url          = {https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/terrorist-attacks-by-method},
  publisher    = {HuggingFace Datasets, repackaged by Electric Sheep Asia},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepasia/asia-owid-terrorist-attacks-by-method}}
}

License

Released under cc-by-4.0.

Original data © Our World in Data. When using this dataset, please cite both the original source above and the Electric Sheep Asia repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Asia is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Asia on HuggingFace. We pull data from authoritative open sources, normalize the schemas, package as Parquet, and publish with consistent dataset cards so researchers and developers can use load_dataset() to start working in seconds.

Browse the full collection: huggingface.co/electricsheepasia

Provenance: ingested 2026-06-12 via the Electric Sheep pipeline. Source URL: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/terrorist-attacks-by-method

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