Iraq Statistics

The excellent Brookings Institute has just released its latest Iraq Index. This is a superb collation of all the latest statistics from the country. All of the information is from reliable external sources, this is merely a monthly collection of them. It's a great way of getting your head around what things are like on the ground over there. A quick scan reveals that July wasn't bad compared to the hideousness that was May/June in terms of civilian deaths from terrorist attacks and US troop deaths. Things generally seem to be heading in a good direction, although the number of daily attacks by the insurgency is still comparatively high. Electricity and oil production has been very good recently, and that continued in July.