In 2021, 52 children were killed and 73 were maimed by
For Iraq, the numbers are staggering, with over 9,000 children killed or maimed (3,119 killed and 5,938 maimed) since 2008 to the end of 2022.
According to Iraq Body Count, between 2003 and 2011, U.S. coalition forces killed at least 1,201 children in Iraq alone. Airwars.org estimates that more recent attacks by U.S.-allied forces against Islamic forces in Iraq and Syria have killed at least 1,239 civilians, including an unknown number of children.
Estimates of excess deaths during the sanctions vary widely, use different methodologies and cover different time frames. The figure of 500,000 child deaths was for a long period widely cited, but recent research has shown that that figure was the result of survey data manipulated by the Saddam Hussein regime.
In the 25 conflicts during the 20th century, 72 million deaths were conflict-related and civilians were included in nearly half of the deaths during the armed conflicts from 1987 to1997. Two million children were killed and an additional four to five million children were seriously injured.
KABUL, 31 Aug 2021 – Almost 33,000 children have been killed and maimed in Afghanistan over the past 20 years, an average of one child every five hours, Save the Children said as the last of the international military forces pulled out of Kabul on Tuesday.
(Nov. 19, 2020) — A total of 93,236 children[i] have been killed or maimed in conflicts in the last ten years, Save the Children revealed today. That means 25 children, the equivalent of a U.S. classroom full of elementary school students, have been killed or injured[ii] on average every day.
The use of child soldiers in Iraq is pervasive, with the practice going as far back as 1975, manifested in Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath party initiative that strove to create a paramilitary organization for children as young as 14 years of age.
Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of morbidity and death in Iraq (Iraqi Ministry of Health, 2019). It is estimated that 30% of Iraqis have high blood pressure, 14% have diabetes, and more than 30% are obese.
Capital punishment in Iraq is a legal penalty. It was commonly used by the government of Saddam Hussein (who was himself ultimately executed), was temporarily halted after the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq that deposed Saddam, and has since been reinstated. Executions are carried out by hanging.
The current birth rate for Iraq in 2023 is 27.470 births per 1000 people, a 1.19% decline from 2022. The birth rate for Iraq in 2022 was 27.802 births per 1000 people, a 1.18% decline from 2021. The birth rate for Iraq in 2021 was 28.134 births per 1000 people, a 1.17% decline from 2020.
Children living in areas previously under IS control have experienced significant and distressing events - particularly incidents of physical and mental violence. Some children have been abducted and used as human shields or child soldiers. Girls have been forced to confront gender-based violence.
The U.S. began to worry that the leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was helping terrorists and that he was secretly developing weapons of mass destruction. What are Weapons of Mass Destruction? The term "Weapons of Mass Destruction", sometimes just called WMDs, are weapons that can cause harm to a lot of people.
Deaths of children under five years of age per 1000 live births, 2021 - Country rankings: The average for 2021 based on 187 countries was 26 deaths per 1000 births. The highest value was in Niger: 115 deaths per 1000 births and the lowest value was in Estonia: 2 deaths per 1000 births.
The deaths of two teenage girls, Nika Shakamari and Sarina Esmailzadeh, both allegedly beaten to death by security forces for protesting, provoked further outrage.
According to the International Committee of the Red Cross, Iraq has one of the highest numbers of missing people in the world, with hundreds of thousands reportedly abducted over the years.
'Triangle of Death' was a name given during the 2003–2010 occupation of Iraq by U.S. and allied forces to a region south of Baghdad, which saw major combat activity and sectarian violence from late 2004 into the fall of 2007.
The current infant mortality rate for Iraq in 2023 is 21.137 deaths per 1000 live births, a 2.73% decline from 2022. The infant mortality rate for Iraq in 2022 was 21.731 deaths per 1000 live births, a 2.66% decline from 2021.
Harsh service conditions, the belief that resistance would be futile, and lack of willingness to fight and die for Saddam led the majority of officers and troops to do little fighting or to desert their units before being engaged. Superior military capabilities gave Coalition forces an overwhelming advantage.
There were no reports of under-18s serving in Iraqi armed forces formed after the United States (US)-led occupation in 2003. The US government confirmed that 17-yearold soldiers were among the occupying forces. A large number of children received military training under the former government of Saddam Hussein.
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Syria and Yemen currently have the largest number of child soldiers. 3. Children are not only recruited by armed forces and groups as fighters. They are also used as informants, looters, messengers, spies and as domestic or sexual slaves.
How many child soldiers are there? There are an estimated 250,000 child soldiers in the world today in at least 20 countries. About 40% of child soldiers are girls, who are often used as sex slaves and taken as “wives” by male fighters.
Globally, infectious diseases, including pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria, along with pre-term birth complications, birth asphyxia and trauma and congenital anomalies remain the leading causes of death for children under 5 years.
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Currently, the DRC has one of the highest proportions of child soldiers in the world. The international court has passed judgment on these practices during the war.
Calvin Leon Graham (April 3, 1930 – November 6, 1992) was the youngest U.S. serviceman to serve and fight during World War II. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Navy from Houston, Texas on August 15, 1942, at the age of 12.