page_title: Casualties of the Iraq War
section_title: Iraqi civilian casualties
hierarchical_section_title: Casualties of the Iraq War / Iraqi civilian casualties
caption_attribution_description: English: A Soldier carries a wounded Iraqi child into the Charlie Medical Centre at Camp Ramadi, Iraq, 20th of March. The child is one of several Iraqis who were attacked by guerilla forces in Western Iraq
context_page_description: Estimates of the casualties from the conflict in Iraq have come in several forms, and those estimates of different types of Iraq War casualties vary greatly.
  Estimating war-related deaths poses many challenges. Experts distinguish between population-based studies, which extrapolate from random samples of the population, and body counts, which tally reported deaths and likely significantly underestimate casualties. Population-based studies produce estimates of the number of Iraq War casualties ranging from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 to over a million. Other survey-based studies covering different time-spans find 461,000 total deaths as of June 2011, and 655,000 total deaths as of June 2006. Body counts counted at least 110,600 violent deaths as of April 2009. The Iraq Body Count project documents 185,000 - 208,000 violent civilian deaths through Feb 2020 in their table. All estimates of Iraq War casualties are disputed.
caption: A soldier carries a wounded Iraqi child into the Charlie Medical Centre at Camp Ramadi, Iraq (March 20, 2007).
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