Iraq Body Count Project - Body Count

Body Count

Deaths in the Iraq war:

Date Min Max
9 April 2003 996 1,174
10 August 2003 6,087 7,798
25 April 2004 8,918 10,769
12 September 2004 11,797 13,806
12 March 2005 16,231 18,510
6 December 2005 27,354 30,863
28 June 2006 38,725 43,140
2 October 2006 43,546 48,343
1 March 2007 57,482 63,421
5 August 2007 68,347 74,753
2 May 2008 83,336 90,897
24 October 2010 98,585 107,594
12 January 2012 104,594 114,260

The figures above are those that appeared in real time on the IBC counters on or around those dates. However, those in the first line were increased radically in the following days and weeks. IBC's current Max figure for the entire invasion phase, up to 30 April 2003, now stands at 7,299. Because IBC performs analyses (e.g., accounts for multiple reports, eliminates overlaps, etc.), there is always a delay between the date on which incidents occur and the addition of their numbers to the IBC database. Another factor is that some reports emerge weeks or even months later - for instance the emergence of Baghdad city morgue reports for 2005 in early 2006. The 6 December line above was taken from the IBC total as it stood on 6 December 2005, but the emergence of the morgue figures later increased IBC's figures for that period to 31,818 - 35,747.

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