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. 2016 Oct 21;11(10):e0164709. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164709

Table 2. Counts of reported violent deaths in Iraq by responsible party and by cause, by war and non-conflict intervals.

Sub-category Time period Total count Percentage for 1980–1993
Iran-Iraq war Peaceful interval First Gulf war Aftermath
1980–1988 1989 1990–1991 1992–1993
Responsible part for violent deaths (Source: household reports)
Coalition forces 1 0 19 0 20 5.67%
Militia 2 1 6 2 11 3.12%
Criminals 2 1 1 0 4 1.13%
Iraq army 25 1 17 0 43 12.18%
Iraq police 36 1 11 0 48 13.60%
Other/unknown 215 2 9 2 228 64.31%
All responsible parties 281 6 63 4 354 100%
Cause of violent deaths (Source: household reports)
Gunshot 117 3 20 1 141 39.66%
Car bomb 0 1 1 0 2 0.57%
Airstrike 50 1 17 1 69 19.55%
Road accident 4 0 1 0 5 1.42%
Other explosion 25 0 3 0 28 7.93%
Other war/don’t know 85 1 21 2 109 30.88%
All cause 281 6 63 4 354 100%

Source of data: Survey of 4,287 adults in 1,960 households in Iraq between May and July of 2011. Data provided by the University Collaborative Iraq Mortality Study, which collected household and sibling data from 2000 households across Iraq in 2011.[14,15]