Mortality Figures

• Sudanese authorities claim a death toll of roughly 19,500 civilians.
• While certain non-governmental organizations, such as the Coalition for International Justice, claim that over 400,000 people have been killed.
• In September 2004, the World Health Organization estimated there had been 50,000 deaths in Darfur since the beginning of the conflict, an 18-month period, mostly due to starvation.
• In March 2005, the UN's Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland estimated that 10,000 were dying each month excluding deaths due to ethnic violence.
• the excess number of deaths is between 178,258 and 461,520 (the mean being 298,271), with 80% of these due to diseases.
• Reports of violent deaths compiled by the UN indicate between 6,000 and 7,000 fatalities from 2004 to 2007.
• The UN disclosed on 22 April 2008 that it might have underestimated the Darfur death toll by nearly 50%.
• Most International peacekeepers have been killed in Darfur.