My apologies Wolfgang, that is a very good point and you are perfectly correct the figures issued are only for those Iraqi's who have died violent/unexpected deaths and does not cover those who have died from natural causes. I believe that overall yearly death rate given for Iraq is 5,37 in 1000, and projecting ourselves forward to March 2007 so that we have four years to consider, the following figures would result. In the period between March 2003 and March 2007 the total number of Iraqi's from all causes would expected to be 575,664.