Iraqi civilian death toll more than 150,000

January 10, 2008

Iraqi civilian death toll more than 150,000

About 151,000 Iraqi civilians were killed in bomb attacks and other violence in Iraq in the first three years after the invasion, according to the most comprehensive study yet into the number of fatalities.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) based its estimate on a survey of nearly 10,000 households, conducted jointly with the Iraqi Government. It said that the actual figure of violent deaths between March 2003 and June 2006 could be as high as 223,000 or as low as 104,000.

Many more people have died over the past 18 months, leaving the overall civilian death toll of the war to date unknown.