Casualties of the Iraq War
Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003all those killed in Iraqcasualtieskilled in Iraq151,000 to 600,00066,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deathsbetween 151,000 and 1.2 million Iraqis being killedCasualties of the Iraq War (Traumatic brain injuries)civilian casualties in Iraqcivilian deaths
Estimates of the casualties from the conflict in Iraq (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency) have come in several forms, and those estimates of different types of Iraq War casualties vary greatly.wikipedia









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Iraq War
Operation Iraqi FreedomIraqwar in Iraq
Estimates of the casualties from the conflict in Iraq (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency) have come in several forms, and those estimates of different types of Iraq War casualties vary greatly.
An estimated 151,000 to 600,000 Iraqis were killed in the first three to four years of conflict.









Iraq War documents leak
Iraq War LogsIraqIraq War documents
The IBC was also given access to the WikiLeaks disclosures of the Iraq War Logs.
The files record 66,081 civilian deaths out of 109,000 recorded deaths.
Iraq Body Count project
Iraq Body CountIraqi Body Countpreviously published
The Iraq Body Count project documents 183,348 - 205,908 violent civilian deaths through April 2019.
See Casualties of the Iraq War.

Brown University
BrownCollege in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence PlantationsBrown Association for Cooperative Housing
In recent years, the most internationally cited product of the Watson Institute has been its Costs of War Project, first released in 2011 and continuously updated.









Lancet surveys of Iraq War casualties
Lancet surveys of casualties of the Iraq War655,000 Iraqi civilians dead2006 ''Lancet'' survey
Other survey-based studies covering different time-spans find 461,000 total deaths (over 60% of them violent) as of June 2011 (per PLOS Medicine 2013), and 655,000 total deaths (over 90% of them violent) as of June 2006 (per the 2006 Lancet study).
In particular see the "Undercounting" section at Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003 which lists many examples of how the media, hospitals, morgues, government, etc. miss some of the deaths caused by the war.


ORB survey of Iraq War casualties
ORB International2007 Opinion Research Business (ORB) surveyOpinion Research Business (ORB) poll
Population-based studies produce estimates of the number of Iraq War casualties ranging from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 (per the Iraq Family Health Survey) to over a million (per the 2007 Opinion Research Business (ORB) survey).
2003 invasion of Iraq
invasion of IraqIraq War2003 Iraq War
Estimates of the casualties from the conflict in Iraq (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency) have come in several forms, and those estimates of different types of Iraq War casualties vary greatly. Estimates of casualties below include both the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the following Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–present.









Iraq Family Health Survey
Iraqi Health Ministry casualty survey
Population-based studies produce estimates of the number of Iraq War casualties ranging from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 (per the Iraq Family Health Survey) to over a million (per the 2007 Opinion Research Business (ORB) survey).
ICasualties.org
National Public Radio, iCasualties.org, and GlobalSecurity.org have month-by-month charts of American troop deaths in the Iraq War.


Ali al-Shemari
In early November 2006 Iraq's Health Minister Ali al-Shemari said that he estimated between 100,000 and 150,000 people had been killed since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
PLOS Medicine
Other survey-based studies covering different time-spans find 461,000 total deaths (over 60% of them violent) as of June 2011 (per PLOS Medicine 2013), and 655,000 total deaths (over 90% of them violent) as of June 2006 (per the 2006 Lancet study).

Associated Press
APThe Associated PressAP Radio
Body counts counted at least 110,600 violent deaths as of April 2009 (Associated Press).


History of Iraq (2003–2011)
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Estimates of casualties below include both the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the following Post-invasion Iraq, 2003–present.









Politics of Iraq
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World Health Organization
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In 2007, a Iraqi Society of Psychiatrists and WHO study found that 70% of 10,000 primary school students in the Sha'ab section of north Baghdad are suffering from trauma-related symptoms.









The New England Journal of Medicine
New England Journal of MedicineNEJMBoston Medical and Surgical Journal
A study of U.S. veterans published in July 2004 in The New England Journal of Medicine on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental disorders in Iraq and Afghanistan veterans found that 5 percent to 9.4 percent (depending on the strictness of the PTSD definition used) suffered from PTSD before deployment.






Confidence interval
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More households were surveyed than during the 2004 study, allowing for a 95% confidence interval of 392,979 to 942,636 excess Iraqi deaths.


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Council of Ministers (Iraq)
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In early November 2006 Iraq's Health Minister Ali al-Shemari said that he estimated between 100,000 and 150,000 people had been killed since the March 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
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