PJ Media

if you use the number of births reported in the Lancet paper, you will get a birth rate that is around 20 births/1000/year. the cia world factbook reports a slow but steady decline in the iraqi birthrate, ongoing from before the war. for 2005, it was around 32 births/1000/year.

i would imagine that collecting birth information from iraqi hospitals would be more reliable than a ‘survey’.

if the survey can’t reproduce the birth rate from other sources, then the sample does not represent the population.

otherwise, you liberals can always argue that no Iraqi’s were born in the last year, which would explain the huge drop in the birth rate over the past 5.5 year.