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| October 7, 2001 | Date the Afghanistan war started |
| 1,632 | Number of Americans killed in Operation Enduring Freedom (October 10, 2001-June 20, 2011) |
| 64.22% | Percentage of all coalition forces killed in Operation Enduring Freedom who are American |
| 11,191 | Total number of U.S. casualties through May 2011 [1] [1] |
| 8,832 | Total number of Afghan civilians killed from 2007-2010[2] [2] |
| $27.36 billion (2010 est.) | Afghanistan’s gross domestic product[3] [3] |
| $426.2 billion | The amount the United States has spent on the Afghan war since 2001[4] [4] |
| 3.43:1 | The ratio of money U.S. spent on the Afghan war in fiscal 2010 to Afghanistan’s GDP[5] [5] |
| $56 million | Gross income value of opiates raised by Afghani farmers in 2001[6] [6] |
| $605 million | Gross income value of opiates raised by Afghani farmers in 2011[7] [7] |
[1] http://icasualties.org/OEF/ [8]
[2] United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission. “Afghanistan – Annual Report 2010 Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict.” March 2011. http://unama.unmissions.org/Portals/UNAMA/human%20rights/Final%20Engish%20version%20of%20Exec%20Summary.pdf [9]. The Human Rights Unit of UNAMA first kept keeping statistics on civilian deaths in 2007.
[3] CIA World Factbook. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html [10]
[4] National Priorities Project. Cost of War. http://costofwar.com/en/ [11]
[5] Helene Cooper. “Cost of Wars a Rising Issue as Obama Weighs Troop Levels.” The New York Times. June 21, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/us/politics/22costs.html [12]
[6] United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Afghanistan-Annual Opium Poppy Survey 2001. http://www.unodc.org/pdf/publications/report_2001-10-16_1.pdf [13]. pg. iii.
[7] United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Afghanistan Opium Survey. December 2010. http://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_Opium_Survey_2010_web.pdf [14]. pg. 24.
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[3] http://www.ourfuture.org/fact-sheets-briefs/2011062522/afghanistan-numbers#foot3
[4] http://www.ourfuture.org/fact-sheets-briefs/2011062522/afghanistan-numbers#foot4
[5] http://www.ourfuture.org/fact-sheets-briefs/2011062522/afghanistan-numbers#foot5
[6] http://www.ourfuture.org/fact-sheets-briefs/2011062522/afghanistan-numbers#foot6
[7] http://www.ourfuture.org/fact-sheets-briefs/2011062522/afghanistan-numbers#foot7
[8] http://icasualties.org/OEF/
[9] http://unama.unmissions.org/Portals/UNAMA/human rights/Final Engish version of Exec Summary.pdf
[10] https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/af.html
[11] http://costofwar.com/en/
[12] http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/us/politics/22costs.html
[13] http://www.unodc.org/pdf/publications/report_2001-10-16_1.pdf
[14] http://www.unodc.org/documents/crop-monitoring/Afghanistan/Afghanistan_Opium_Survey_2010_web.pdf