93,000: Three ways to understand the Syrian death toll

GlobalPost

Numbers can be hard to grasp —  especially one like 93,000. That's the number (92,901 to be exact) of people the UN says have died so far in Syria's conflict. Here's some help understanding the magnitude of that:

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Comparing death tolls by major events

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Syria's bloody conflict compared to other major events

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