The Iraqi Ministry of Health has announced that 1.4 million Iraqis of all ages have died during the past nine years because of the embargo imposed on Iraq.
Statistics released by the Iraqi Health Ministry on Wednesday for the period between August of 1990 and November 1999 said that the number of deaths among all ages was 1,250,901.
The statistics stressed that number of the deaths included 502,492 persons whose ages do not exceed five years and another 748,409 persons whose ages are above five years.
The Iraqi ministry added in its statistics that the mortality rate among infants reached 108 per each 1,000 births, and mortality among women of reproductive age has reached 296 for each 100,000 births.
The ministry indicated that the reasons for the deaths mostly result from breathing inflammation diseases, malnutrition, diabetes, heart diseases, high blood pressure, kidney and liver diseases and diarrhea.
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