Casualties of The Iraq War - Additional Statistics For The Iraq War

Additional Statistics For The Iraq War

Overview of casualties by type
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Dead
  • Iraqis:
  • Deadliest single insurgent bombings:
    • August 14, 2007. Truck bombs - 2007 Yazidi communities bombings (in northwestern Iraq):
      • 796 killed.
  • Other deadly days:
    • November 23, 2006, (281 killed) and April 18, 2007, (233 killed):
      • "4 bombings in Baghdad kill at least 183. ... Nationwide, the number of people killed or found dead on Wednesday was 233, which was the second deadliest day in Iraq since Associated Press began keeping records in May 2005. Five car bombings, mortar rounds and other attacks killed 281 people across Iraq on November 23, 2006, according to the AP count."
Wounded in action
  • As of January 12, 2007, 500 U.S. troops have undergone amputations due to the Iraq War. Toes and fingers are not counted.
  • As of September 30, 2006, 725 American troops have had limbs amputated from wounds received in Iraq and Afghanistan.
  • A 2006 study by the Walter Reed Medical Center, which serves more critically injured soldiers than most VA hospitals, concluded that 62 percent of patients there had suffered a brain injury.
  • In March 2003, U.S. military personnel were wounded in action at a rate averaging about 350 per month. As of September 2007, this rate has increased to about 675 per month.
Injured/fallen ill
  • U.S. military: number unknown.
    • An October 18, 2005, USA Today article reports:
      • "More than one in four U.S. troops have come home from the Iraq war with health problems that require medical or mental health treatment, according to The Pentagon's first detailed screening of service members leaving a war zone."
  • Iraqi combatants: number unknown
Refugees
  • As of November 4, 2006, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that 1.8 million Iraqis had been displaced to neighboring countries, and 1.6 million were displaced internally, with nearly 100,000 Iraqis fleeing to Syria and Jordan each month.

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