Damage to Baghdad during the Iraq War

The population of Baghdad is around 7 million people.[1]

The Iraq War started with a US-led invasion on 20 March 2003, causing much damage to the capital city, Baghdad. The war and collateral damage continued for years.

In October 2003, a joint United Nations/World Bank team conducted an assessment of funding needs for reconstruction in Iraq during the period 2004-2007.[2] A study conducted by the Iraqi Central Bureau of Statistics in cooperation with the United Nations, based on surveys conducted in 2004, reported that a third of Iraqis were living in poverty, in spite of the rich natural resources of the country.[3]

  1. ^ Estimates of total population differ substantially. The Encyclopædia Britannica gives a 2001 population of 4,950,000; the 2006 Lancet Report states a population of 6,554,126 in 2004.
    • "Baghdad." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 13 November 2006.
    • "Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey" (PDF). (242 KiB). By Gilbert Burnham, Riyadh Lafta, Shannon Doocy, and Les Roberts. The Lancet, October 11, 2006
    • Baghdad Archived 2010-03-08 at the Wayback Machine from GlobalSecurity.org
  2. ^ "UN/World Bank Joint Iraq Needs Assessment October 2003" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2006-05-18. Retrieved 2010-04-23.
  3. ^ "Iraq Living Conditions Survey 2004". ReliefWeb. 12 May 2005. Retrieved 3 February 2020.