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Catastrophe scale of Syria-style war elsewhere

What would be the scale of human catastrophe as a result of a war by Daesh on other countries?

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Syrian government security forces inspect the site of a series of deadly Daesh attacks in the area of the Hazrat Zeinab shrine south of Syria's capital Damascus on February 21, 2016. (AFP)

Five years into the deadly foreign-backed militancy in Syria, and still no consensus on the scale of the staggering human suffering and destruction in the Arab country. However, figures by the UN and the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) are among the most widely-cited death tolls, with the former suggesting that 260,000 are killed and the latter putting the toll at 470,000, including 70,000 people who have perished due to the lack of proper health services, food and proper housing.

The SCPR’s February report also put the number of those wounded at 1.9 million, stating that 11.5 percent of Syria’s population has been killed or injured, 6.36 million people have been displaced internally and more than four million others have fled the country since the beginning of the conflict. That accounts for 45 percent of the country’s population, which has shrunk by 21 percent.

But how massive would be the impact of a similar war in other countries, including those that have reportedly had a hand in the brutal conflict?

An online calculator designed by the Minneapolis-based Public Radio International (PRI) uses data provided by the UN and the so-called Syrian Observatory of Human Rights to determine an estimate about the depth of the bloodshed in any country of your choice.

The extent of the carnage perpetrated by the Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Syria can be seen in the following graphs after the Syrian crisis data is extrapolated onto these countries:

The United States

Britain

Saudi Arabia

Turkey

Qatar

Jordan