New Estimate Of Iraq Death Toll

The online database Iraq Body Count has so far collated 47,000 deaths for this period, mainly from media reports. But a controversial 2006 estimate from researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, based on home surveys, concluded there had been 601,000 violent deaths, more than 2% of the Iraqi population. The new study took data from the Iraq Family Health Survey, conducted by the country's federal and regional ministries, in collaboration with the WHO. In total, 9,345 households were surveyed. The 2006 paper analysed data from 1,800 households. Jon Pederson of Fafo, an Oslo, Norway-based organization that gathers information about living and working conditions, helped run a similar survey in Iraq in 2004. This United Nations-led project looked at 22,000 households and estimated that, up to then, between 18,000 and 29,000 had died. http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080109/full/news.2008.426.html

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