# How many dead so far in Iraq?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 24, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-so-far-in-iraq/305260 "2005-05-24T14:53:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rabbit)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-so-far-in-iraq/305260/1 "2005-05-24T14:53:23Z")

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Has any website/news service tallied up the number of dead in Iraq so far?

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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-so-far-in-iraq/305260/2 "2005-05-24T15:03:03Z")

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Which dead? There is a pretty detailed list of casualties among the coalition armed forces at [this site](http://icasualties.org/oif/), which also has a link to an incomplete survey of Iraqi police/guardsmen deaths. Iraqi casualties in general are certainly much larger, but also much harder to quantify, and there’s uncertainty of probably half an order of magnitude in the numbers.

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-so-far-in-iraq/305260/3 "2005-05-24T15:25:33Z")

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This is supposed to be a very conservative number, only counting deaths reported in multiple independent news sources:  
[http://www.iraqbodycount.net/](http://www.iraqbodycount.net/)

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**Author:** ![rwjefferson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a6a055/32.png) [@rwjefferson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rwjefferson)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-so-far-in-iraq/305260/4 "2005-05-24T16:08:49Z")

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How does this compare to the “hostages” that died by Saddam (direct and indirect) in the years just before the war?  
The cure seems to be worse than the disease.

Peace through Liberty

rwjefferson

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**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-so-far-in-iraq/305260/5 "2005-05-24T16:34:59Z")

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And [this CNN article](http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/iraq.deaths/) talks about a survey that produced the oft-quoted “100,000 Iraqis dead” figure. The actual journal arcitle is [here](http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673604174412/fulltext) (free registration required).

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**Author:** ![rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/919ad9/32.png) [@rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rabbit)\
**Post date:** [May 25, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-dead-so-far-in-iraq/305260/6 "2005-05-25T01:34:27Z")

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thats the stuff I’m looking for. Thanks