The war in numbers

Iraq War in numbers (Image © AP/PA Photos)
  • 26 – countries involved in the Multi-National Force in Iraq (Source: MOD)
A US military helicopter blasts dust on a lone soldier as it lands near the site of a suicide truck bombing in the village of Qahtaniya, 120 kilometres (75 miles) west of Mosul, Iraq. (Image © AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
  • 40 – Number of coalition soldiers who died as a result of accidental attacks by their own side during the initial conflict in 2003. (Source: BBC News)
  • 5 – years since the war began.
  • 79.6 – percentage of the population who turned out to vote in the December 2005 Iraqi Legislative Election. (Source: Wikipedia)
  • 3,987 – US deaths since war began (antiwar.com)
  • 1.9 million - estimated number of Iraqis who are internally displaced (CIA)
  • 4,100 - British troops serving in southern Iraq. (MOD)
An Iraqi member of the Amariyah Volunteers, former insurgents who have joined forces with the US and Iraqi troops to fight al-Qaida, adjusts his ammunition belt (Image © AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
  • 82,078 – 89,573 – documented civilian deaths from violence (iraqbodycount.org  -March 13, 2008)
  • 0 – Weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq following the 2003 invasion. Most weapons inspectors now believe that the Iraqi WMD program did not proceed after the early 1990s. (Iraq Survey Group final report)
  • 175 - British Armed Forces personnel or MOD civilians to die in Iraq (correct up to February 29, 2008 - MOD)
  • 27,499,638 –population of Iraq (CIA - estimated July 2007)
  • 1441 - UN Security Council Resolution 1441 was unanimously adopted in November 2002, declaring Iraq to be in material breach of previous resolutions. (MOD)
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