May 23 2007
How many troops are in Iraq? What is the ratio of regular forces to reserves? US to coalition? US to Iraqi?
In late 2003, the Department of Defense plan was to reduce the number of American troops in Iraq to 105,000 by May 2004.
However, in November 2006, there were approximately 140,000 troops there. We no longer know what the breakdown is between active and reserve forces (including National Guard). The last time those data were available, there were 90,000 active forces and 60,000 reserve.
In November 2006, coalition troop numbers were down from a high of 25,600 (January 2004) to 18,000. Thus 89 percent of the troops were American.
On 10 January 2006, President Bush announced that he was sending another 21,500 troops to Iraq. See Tracking The Surge In Iraq
As of 30 April, only three of the five additional planned U.S. brigades were in place. In addition, only about half of the planned "joint security stations" have established in Iraqi neighborhoods.
Total US Troops ~146,000 -- 30 April 2007*
This is an increase of 11,000 over February.Coalition Country Military Personnel in Iraq As of (date)
- United Kingdom - 7,100 - January 12, 2007
- South Korea - 2,300 - February 22, 2007
- Italy - 0 - December 2, 2006
- Poland - 900 - February 22, 2007
- Australia - 550 - February 22, 2007
- Georgia - 900 - February 22, 2007
- Romania - 600 - February 22, 2007
- Denmark - 460 - January 2, 2007
- Total Coalition Troops ~13,205 March 7, 2007
(This is approximately 800 fewer than February)
In addition to the United States, 25 countries are contributors to Iraqi Stability Operations as of 14 March 2007:
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia/Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Ukraine, and the United Kingdom.
Fiji is participating as part of the UN mission in Iraq and Hungary, Iceland, Slovenia and Turkey are NATO countries supporting Iraqi stability operations but are not part of MNF-I.
“Iraq Weekly Status Report,” Department of State, 24 January 2007.
Data from the Brookings Institution about reconstruction and security in Post-Saddam Iraq.
