Global Terrorism Index (GTI)

•Global Terrorism Index is released by Australian Think Tank Institute for Economics and peace.
•The GTI report issued by the IEP is based primarily on the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) collated by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland, besides other sources.
•India has moved to the seventh position from the previous year’s eighth in the annual Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2019.
•The countries ahead of it are Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Syria, Pakistan and Somalia.