In Sum
1 Slight variation of this figure from the IBC database will be due to the continuous addition of data as the online database is updated, and the inclusion in this release of March 2013 incidents still being fully processed.
IBC has documented 112,017 - 122,438
civilian deaths from violence between 20 March 2003 and 14 March 2013. 1
A complete account of violent deaths that includes Iraqi and foreign combatants (including coalition forces), as well as previously unreported civilian deaths still being extracted by IBC from the Iraq War Logs released by WikiLeaks, would include:
- 39,900 (combatants killed of all nationalities)
- 11,500 civilians (likely to be added from the Iraq War Logs)
2 For details, see IBC’s 2012 annual report with updates on overall numbers and the Iraq War Logs.
3 70,000 people killed in Iraq since 2003, says Human Rights Ministry, AK News
yielding about 174,000 as the number of people documented killed in violence in Iraq since 2003. 2
IBC has recorded an additional 135,089 civilians injured, along with incident and demographic details where known. However IBC only records injured in incidents where there were also deaths, and (unlike for deaths) official Iraqi figures are consistently higher than IBC's. In May 2012 the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry reported that there had been 250,000 injured since 2003. 3