Leila Fadel on Iraqi death toll: Number’s elusive, but people’s fears are inescapable
September 26, 2007 Iraq No CommentsIn 2006 the medical journal The Lancet estimated that excess deaths in Iraq due to the war were 654,965, or 2.5 percent of the population. Iraq Body Count, which tracks civilian deaths, puts the number of documented deaths between 72,596 and 79,187….
This week a poll by the British market research company, Opinion Research Business, put the number at 1,220,580 deaths that were not natural causes, since the 2003 invasion.