Iraq Five Years On: The Bare Facts

Iraqis killed since the invasion: 150,000 - 1.2 million
Invaders killed: 5,000
Iraqis wounded since the invasion: 500,000 - 3 million


Externally displaced refugees: 2 million
Internally displaced refugees: 2.2 million
% Iraqi professionals that have left the country since the invasion: 40%


Iraqis detailed by the invaders and the quisling government in Nov 2007: 60,000
% of detainees held by the invaders that are Sunnis: 80%
Death sentences in 2007: 200


% of Iraqis who cannot buy enough to eat: 15% (or 4 million Iraqis)
% of Iraqis dependent on food rations: 30% (or 8 million Iraqis)
% of Iraqis who live on less than $1 a day (absolute poverty): 43% (or 12 million Iraqis)
% of working age Iraqis unemployed: 50%


% of Iraqis with NO access to safe drinking water: 70% (or 19 million Iraqis)
% of Iraqis with ineffective sanitation: 80% (or 22 million Iraqis)
Hours of electricity supply per day: 2


% of Iraqi children suffering psychological problems: 70%
% of Iraqi children suffering learning difficulties: 92%
% of Iraqi children who are orphans: 35% (or 5 million children)
Iraqi children out of school: 800,000


Malnutrition rates pre-invasion: 19%
Malnutrition rates in 2007: 28%


% of Iraqi women who had experienced physical violence: 21%
Iraqi women and girl refugees forced into prostitution: 50,000


Iraq's position on the Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index in 2006: 160th
Money from oil and international aid that the quisling government FAILED to spend in 2006: $26 billion


Cost to USA to end of 2007: $0.5 trillion

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