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This is the eighth edition of the Global Terrorism Index 2020 (GTI) report produced by the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) in Sydney, Australia. The report provides a comprehensive summary of the trends and patterns of global terrorism in 163 countries. The report draws on the Global Terrorism Information Database (GTD) at the University of Maryland, USA. Data for the GTD is collected and collated by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. The GTD contains over 170,000 terrorist incidents for the period 1970 to 2019.