Presentation made to a symposium titled Documenting Mortality in Conflicts, organised by WHO/CRED with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and held in Brussels, 6-7 November 2008.
This slightly amended web version (published 2 February 2009) has been updated to reflect the latest statistics in the IBC database.
Victim details present for extraction in % of 59,553 violent deaths
Jan 2006–Sep 2008
| Age | 33.2% |
|---|---|
| Sex | 30.3% |
| Occupation | 17.9% |
| Identification | 5.3% |
Details describing victims are generally more limited, yet even these still provide substantial insights on a great number of the dead.