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A September 14, 2007, estimate by Opinion Research Business (ORB), an independent British polling agency, suggested that the total Iraqi violent death toll due to the Iraq War since the U.S.-led invasion was in excess of 1.2 million (1,220,580). These results were based on a survey of 1,499 adults in Iraq from August 12–19, 2007.
Bubble chart of wars with over 1.5 million deaths. [225] Combatant deaths in conventional wars, 1800-2011. [226] Seven deadliest wars after 1900. The length of each spiral segment is proportional to the war's duration and its area size to its death toll. [227]
Iraq Body Count project (IBC) is a web-based effort to record civilian deaths resulting from the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq.Included are deaths attributable to coalition and insurgent military action, sectarian violence and criminal violence, which refers to excess civilian deaths caused by criminal action resulting from the breakdown in law and order which followed the coalition invasion.
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The death toll in Iraq this year ranges from some 7,900 to 8,700 people so far, making 2013 the most deadly year for the country since 2008, according to IraqBodyCount.org, a U.K.-based website founded in 2003 and run by volunteers to record civilian deaths.
The Lancet authors calculated a range of 392,979 to 942,636 deaths. On 28 January 2008, ORB published an update based on additional work carried out in rural areas of Iraq. Some 600 additional interviews were undertaken September 20 to 24, 2007. As a result of this the death estimate was revised to 1,033,000 with a given range of 946,000 to ...
In February, the death toll across Iraq reached 278 according to IBC. [23] 74 people were killed between March 1–8 according to IBC, [23] and a total of 112 were killed in Iraq in March, according to government figures. [24] At least 126 Iraqis were killed in April, while 132 Iraqis were killed in sectarian violence in Iraq in May 2012.
If accurate, these figures would imply the death of an average 500 people per day, or 2.5% of Iraq's population during the period. [24] An 11 October 2006 Washington Post article [4] reports: The survey was conducted between May 20 and July 10 [2006] by eight Iraqi physicians organized through Mustansiriya University in Baghdad.