A new survey, released today by the ORB polling agency, suggests that around 1.2 million Iraqi civilians have been killed since the U.S.-led invasion of March 2003. That's more than 4% of the country's population.
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Sometimes woo jumps out and hits you from sources from which you least expect it.
Will McLean found an error in the detailed tables for the ORB survey.
ORB has revised their estimate of violent deaths as a result of the Iraq war (discussed earlier here). They write:
James Wimberly adds the new ORB survey to his chart that extrapolates the various surveys of Iraqi deaths. He comments:
More precisely, 1.2 million Iraqi civilians have been murdered.
I suspect the true number is closer to 1.2 billion Iraqis, not million. That is over 1/6th the population of the entire planet.