7 years after war began, Iraqis await vote results

U.S. troop levels

• March 31, 2003: 90,000.

• October 2007: 170,000 at peak of troop buildup.

• March 1: Just more than 96,000.

Casualties

→Confirmed U.S. military deaths as of Friday: at least 4,385.

• Deaths of civilian employees of U.S. government contractors in Iraq as of Dec. 31: 1,457.

• Deaths of coalition troops (non-U.S.) as of Friday: at least 315.

• Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion: more than 95,680, according to the Iraq Body Count database.

Cost

• More than $712 billion, according to the National Priorities Project. To date, $747.3 billion has been allocated to the war in Iraq since 2003. In August 2008, the Congressional Budget Office projected that additional war costs for the next 10 years could range from $440 billion to $865 billion.

Unemployment rate in Iraq

• January 2004: 30-45 percent.

• January 2010: an estimated 15.5-30 percent.

Cost of a barrel of oil

• March 28, 2003: $21.50.

• March 12: $77.32.

Internet subscribers

• September 2003: 4,900.

• January 2010: 1,600,000.

Emigrants

• Prewar: 500,000 Iraqis living abroad.

• March 2010: Approximately 2 million Iraqis, mainly in Syria and Jordan.

• January 2010: At least 216,430 refugees and internally displaced persons have returned to Iraq.

All figures are the most recent available.

Sources: The Associated Press, State Department, Defense Department, Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction, The Brookings Institution, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, National Priorities Project, Department of Labor, Congressional Budget Office, Iraq Body Count, Energy Information Administration.