What Is The Death Toll Of The Iraq War
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According to a study published by Lancet, it is estimated that the risk of death by violence for civilians is now 58 times higher in Iraq than what it was before the US-led invasion took place.
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Lancet also claims through the study that poor planning, air strikes by coalition forces and the climate conducive to violence in Iraq have led to more than 100,000 extra deaths in the country.
Many unofficial estimates claim that the civilian death toll on account of Iraq war varies from 10,000 to over 37,000.
Lancet claims that the research sample to conduct the study was small but insists that its findings are convincing.
The Iraq Body Count is a respected database that is run by a group of academics and peace activists. This database claims that the number of civilian deaths in Iraq is hovering around 14,000 to 16,000.
However, Lancet study is a research done by scientists from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and they have been gathering data on births and deaths since January 2002 from 33 clusters of 30 household each across the country.
Before the Iraq war started the Lancet study claims that most people in Iraq died because of heart attacks, stroke and chronic illness. However, after the Iraq war started, the primary cause of death is violence and the relative risk for Iraqi civilians was two and a half times higher after the 2003 invasion happened than it was 15 months before the invasion.
The deaths in Iraq are mainly attributed to the coalition forces and most individuals killed in Iraq are reported to be women and children.
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