by
The
map
above
shows
which
countries
lost
soldiers
helping
US
forces
during
the
Iraq
War
between
2003
and
2011.
It
follows
on
from
my
previous
map:
Map
Of
Coalition
Countries
That
Lost
At
Least
1
Solider
Helping
US
Forces
In
Afghanistan
Between
2001
&
2021.
Here
are
the
totals
for
collation
countries,
followed
by
the
much,
much
larger
estimates
for
Iraqi
deaths:
| Country |
Total Deaths |
Population 2010 |
Deaths Per Million People |
|---|---|---|---|
|
United States |
4,486 | 309,349,689 | 14.5 |
|
United Kingdom |
179 | 62,026,962 | 2.89 |
| Italy | 33 | 60,340,328 | 0.55 |
| Poland | 23 | 38,167,329 | 0.60 |
| Ukraine | 18 | 45,782,592 | 0.39 |
| Bulgaria | 13 | 7,563,710 | 1.72 |
| Spain | 11 | 45,989,016 | 0.24 |
| Denmark | 7 | 5,534,738 | 1.26 |
|
El Salvador |
5 | 6,194,126 | 0.81 |
| Georgia | 5 | 4,436,391 | 1.13 |
| Slovakia | 4 | 5,424,925 | 0.74 |
| Latvia | 3 | 2,248,374 | 1.33 |
| Romania | 3 | 21,462,186 | 0.14 |
| Estonia | 2 | 1,340,127 | 1.49 |
| Thailand | 2 | 63,878,267 | 0.03 |
| Australia | 2 | 22,299,800 | 0.09 |
| Netherlands | 2 | 16,574,989 | 0.12 |
| Kazakhstan | 1 | 16,442,000 | 0.06 |
|
South Korea |
1 | 49,410,366 | 0.02 |
| Hungary | 1 | 10,014,324 | 0.10 |
|
Czech Republic |
1 | 10,506,813 | 0.10 |
| Azerbaijan | 1 | 8,997,586 | 0.11 |
These
totals
comes
from
the
now
defunct
iCasualties
website
as
accessed
via
Wikipedia
(deaths
per
million
is
my
calculation).
As
for
Iraqi
deaths
the
numbers
vary
wildly
depending
on
sources.
Wikipedia
has
a
good
summary
here,
but
the
total
ranges
from
a
low
of
109,032
violent
deaths
including
66,081
civilian
deaths
from
the
Iraq
War
Logs
(only
for
2004
to
2009)
up
to
ORB
survey
of
Iraq
War
casualties
at
1,220,580
in
2007.
The
very
sad
truth
is
we’ll
likely
never
know
the
true
number,
but
it
is
orders
of
magnitude
higher
than
Coalition
Deaths
and
like
Afghanistan
one
wonders
what
it
was
all
for.
As
the
Cost
of
War
Project
puts
it:
In
their
most
recent
calculations,
the
Costs
of
War
Project
estimates
that
post-9/11
wars
participated
in
by
the
US
have
directly
killed
905,000
to
940,000,
and
indirectly
3,6000,000-3,800,000
people
though
the
precise
figure
remains
unknown.This
brings
the
estimated
total
of
direct
and
indirect
deaths
to
4,500,000-4,700,000
people
in
Iraq,
Afghanistan,
Pakistan,
Syria,
and
Yemen.In
addition
to
38,000,000
displaced
peoples
and
[total
costs]
exceeded
$8
trillion,
including
$2.2
trillion
reserved
for
veterans’
care
through
2050.A
2021
report
from
the
project
concluded
that
since
September
11,
2001,
four
times
more
U.S.
veterans
and
service
members
had
died
by
suicide
than
had
been
killed
in
combat.
What
do
you
think?
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