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europe-owid-terrorist-attacks-by-method

country_name stringclasses 33 values	country_iso3 stringclasses 33 values	year int64 1.97k 2.02k	Unknown float64 0 30	Unarmed assault float64 0 10	Infrastructure attack float64 0 123	Hostage kidnapping float64 0 31	Assassination float64 0 39	Armed assault float64 0 79	Bombing float64 0 233
Albania	ALB	1,970	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,971	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,972	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,973	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,974	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,975	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,976	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,977	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,978	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,979	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,980	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,981	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Albania	ALB	1,982	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,983	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,984	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,985	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,986	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,987	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,988	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,989	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,990	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Albania	ALB	1,991	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Albania	ALB	1,992	0	1	0	0	2	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,994	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Albania	ALB	1,995	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	1,996	1	0	0	0	1	0	4
Albania	ALB	1,997	1	0	1	1	8	11	19
Albania	ALB	1,998	0	0	0	0	0	0	7
Albania	ALB	1,999	0	0	0	0	1	0	2
Albania	ALB	2,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Albania	ALB	2,001	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Albania	ALB	2,002	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,003	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,004	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,005	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,006	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,007	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,008	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,009	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Albania	ALB	2,010	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,011	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,012	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,013	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Albania	ALB	2,014	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Albania	ALB	2,015	0	0	0	0	1	0	3
Albania	ALB	2,016	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
Albania	ALB	2,017	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Albania	ALB	2,018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albania	ALB	2,019	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Albania	ALB	2,020	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Albania	ALB	2,021	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Andorra	AND	1,970	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,971	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,972	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,973	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,974	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Andorra	AND	1,975	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,976	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,977	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,978	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,979	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,980	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,981	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,982	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,983	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,984	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,985	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,986	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,987	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,988	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,989	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,990	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,991	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,992	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,994	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,995	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,996	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,997	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,998	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	1,999	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,000	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,001	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,002	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,003	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,004	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,005	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,006	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,007	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,008	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,009	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,010	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,011	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,012	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,013	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,014	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,015	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,016	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,017	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,018	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Andorra	AND	2,019	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

🇪🇺 1,693 observations · 40 Europe countries · 1970–2021 · Repackaged by Electric Sheep Europe

TL;DR

This dataset contains 1,693 observations of Terrorist Attacks By Method data across 40 Europe 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

40 Europe countries · top rows shown below, sorted by row count:

Country	Rows	First year	Last year
`ALB`	51	1970	2021
`AND`	51	1970	2021
`AUT`	51	1970	2021
`BEL`	51	1970	2021
`BGR`	51	1970	2021
`CHE`	51	1970	2021
`DNK`	51	1970	2021
`ESP`	51	1970	2021
`SWE`	51	1970	2021
`VAT`	51	1970	2021
`FRA`	51	1970	2021
`FIN`	51	1970	2021
`GBR`	51	1970	2021
`IRL`	51	1970	2021
`HUN`	51	1970	2021
...	25 more countries

Schema

Column	Type	Description	Example
`country_name`	`string`	—	`Albania`
`country_iso3`	`string`	—	`ALB`
`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("electricsheepeurope/europe-owid-terrorist-attacks-by-method")
df = ds["train"].to_pandas()
print(df.head())

Filter to one country

germany = df[df["country_iso3"] == "DEU"]

Time-series for a single indicator

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

Citation

@misc{europe_owid_terrorist_attacks_by_method_2021,
  title        = {Terrorist Attacks By Method | Europe (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 Europe},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/electricsheepeurope/europe-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 Europe repackaging.

About Electric Sheep

Electric Sheep Europe is part of the Electric Sheep mission: a unified, ML-ready data layer for Europe 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/electricsheepeurope

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

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