Casualties of The Iraq War - Iraqi Civilian Casualties

Iraqi Civilian Casualties

Estimates of Iraqi civilian casualties are highly disputed, and few sources have attempted to measure civilian casualties in Iraq. Various estimates are discussed below, and elsewhere in this article. See also the section on total Iraqi casualties. In December 2007, a member of Iraq's Anti-Corruption board is reported to have said there were five million orphans in Iraq — almost half of the country's children. In March, 2012, the Baghdad Provincial Council estimated, "the overall number of orphans across Iraq to be no more than 400,000," while a UN report from 2008 estimated the number to be around 870,000.

For the major combat phase of the war from March to April 2003, Abu Dhabi TV reported on April 8, 2003, that Iraqi sources had claimed that 1,252 civilians had been killed and 5,103 had been wounded. The Iraq Body Count project (IBC project), incorporating subsequent reports, has reported that by the end of the major combat phase up to April 30, 2003, 7,419 civilians had been killed, primarily by U.S. air-and-ground forces.