Those three provinces account for 35% of the population, but by December 2006 they were responsible for 73% of U.S. military deaths and an even higher percentage of recent U.S. military deaths (about 80%).
這三個省佔伊拉克35％的人口，但2006年12月5日，美軍死亡人數為73％，近期美軍死亡人數的比例更高（大約80％左右。