The worldwide number of deaths caused by terrorism has plummeted by 59 percent since 2014, but North America, Western Europe and the region around Australia have seen a dramatic 250 percent increase in that period fueled mostly by violence carried out by far-right groups, according to the Global Terrorism Index.

“One of the more worrying trends in the last five years is the surge in far-right political terrorism, even though the absolute number of far-right attacks remains low when compared to other forms of terrorism,” the report said.

The index, compiled by the Institute for Economics & Peace, found that deaths from far-right attacks in that period shot up 709 percent in North America, Western Europe and Oceania, the geographical area that comprises Australia, Micronesia and Polynesia.

Of the 89 deaths attributed to far-right terrorists in 2019, 51 of those took place during the mosque attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand.

The report noted that as lethal as far-right terrorism is, it trails Islamic terrorism in the West.

“There have been 13 far-right terrorist attacks that have each killed more than ten people over the past 50 years, compared to 24 Islamist attacks, and three from other ideologies,” the report said.

Far-right violence is also more likely to be carried out by individuals “unaffiliated with a specific terrorist group.”

Deaths from terrorism fell for the fifth straight year in 2019 after peaking in 2014.

Afghanistan recorded a 22.4 percent decrease in deaths attributed to terrorism from 2018’s levels but it still ranks as the country most impacted by terrorism, having overtaken Iraq in 2018.

The report indicated that the Islamic State terror group’s strength has continued to diminish, with deaths caused by the group in 2019 falling to 942, down from 1,571 the year before.