Sentences with phrase «estimate war deaths»

A team led by Ziad Obermeyer, a public health researcher at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle, Washington, used an alternative source to estimate war deaths: published surveys that asked people about their siblings.

For data about wars, there are many databases that estimate war deaths, and in recent eras, governments and social scientists have tracked just about every aspect of life, so we really can get a clear view of things like child abuse, spousal abuse, rape and so on.

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Between some 245,000 to 415,000 South Korean civilian deaths were also suggested, and the total civilian casualties during the war were estimated as 1,500,000 to 3,000,000 (most sources estimate some 2,000,000 casualties).»

In any case, the total number of deaths by war and opression in the 20th century can be estimated at 203 million.

The total number of deaths by war and opression in the 20th century can be estimated at 203 million.

As late as October 2006, the journal of the British Medical Association, The Lancet, published a study conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and al - Mustansiriya University in Baghdad estimating that, since March 2003, there were some 601,027 more Iraqi deaths from violence than would have been expected without a war.

If the estimates are confirmed, it would be among the highest civilian death tolls since the war started in 2003, and one of the highest civilian body counts caused by the U.S. military since the Vietnam Wwar started in 2003, and one of the highest civilian body counts caused by the U.S. military since the Vietnam WarWar.

Seven years» war — estimated 1.3 million dead, including 700,000 military deaths

Historian Richard Pipes has estimated that the Russian Civil War claimed two million combat deaths, two million deaths from epidemics, and five million deaths from famine.

An estimated ten million soldiers died during the First World War, in addition to one million direct civilian deaths and a further six million deaths from famine and disease, the motion notes.

That figure is three times higher than estimates compiled a few years ago for global war - related deaths over the same period, Obermeyer's team reports today in the British Medical Journal.

And comparing their estimate with previous estimates decade by decade, the researchers conclude that «there is no evidence» for a decreasing trend in war - related deaths since the 1950s.

A week ago, I set readers a mystery / blind stock challenge — to estimate an intrinsic / fair value for four mystery companies: Conquest, War, Famine & Death.

Examining the dark humour that emerged during Algeria's «black decade» (1991 — 2001), a period of internal war resulting in the deaths of an estimated 200,000 people, this work considers how joke telling can become a way for trauma to be emotionally assimilated within society.

In a major study, the Lancet journal has revealed that pollution - related diseases were responsible for an estimated 9 million premature deaths in 2015, or some 15 times more than from all wars and other forms of violence combined.

«The Black Death in the middle ages is estimated to have killed more of Europe's population than World War 2.

Only the final model (5f in Fig. 2) returns a statistically significant climate parameter estimate; apparently, major civil war years (i.e., years with at least 1,000 battle deaths) are more frequent in years following unusually wet periods — a result that directly contradicts the notion of scarcity - induced conflicts.