Comparing Syria's War Dead With Other Past Civil Wars

By The Numbers: Syria Deaths -- CNN Staff

More than 60,000 people have been killed in Syria since unrest began in the country nearly two years ago, according to the latest estimate from the United Nations.

And that might actually be an "underestimate," according to U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, who reported the statistics this year. She said Syria's raging civil war has made it "increasingly challenging" to collect accurate and reliable data.

But even if that number is on the low side, it does provide a way to put Syria's conflict in historical context.

Take a look at Syria's statistics below and see how they compare with statistics from another recent civil war (Libya), civil wars in countries of similar size (Yugoslavia in the 1990s and Spain in the 1930s) and even the Civil War in the United States.

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My Comment: Sobering statistics, and a heads-up on how bloody the Syrian civil war can become.

Visualizing 38 Million Deaths From 25 Conflicts Over 100 Years Using Blood And Dining Room Table

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WNU Editor: From Feelguide ....

.... The past century has seen more death, war, atrocity, and spilled blood than we can even wrap our heads around, but this new inforgraphic entitled “100 Years of World Cuisine” makes an excellent attempt at doing just that. By using various volumes of blood to match the proportion of deaths that occurred in each tragedy, it hits the message home of the massive scale of tragedy that we have inflicted on ourselves over the past century. Artists Clara Kayser-Bril, Nicolas Kayser-Bril and Marion Kotlarski, explicitly wanted to associate a “shocking, gory picture, like the reality of war” to these statistical numbers, a “context, like a scale on which we could visualize each conflict next to the others.” You can learn more at 100YearsOfWorldCuisine.com.