No manipulation required dianavan:

Population in 1990 was 18.6 million, by July 2006 it was around the 26.7 million mark. Where did they all come from? You and your fellow travellers have been telling us for god knows how long that the population of Iraq has been massacred indiscriminately by the US and the "big bad west" for damn near two decades now. That those not killed by American bombers have been killed by UN sanctions. So how come their rate of population growth compared to the UK's is damn near 10:1.

How about this by way of explanation:

1) Nowhere remotely near the "projected" 500,000 children under five died due to UN sanctions.

2) Nowhere remotely near the "batch sampled" 650,000 Iraqi "civilians" were killed by US bombers

3) The 4.5 million Iraqi's who had fled the regime of Saddam Hussein returned.

Hell dianavan if you want manipulated figures there's the population of Iraq in 1990 (18.6 million) instantly raised to 24.25 million at a stroke.