A Pew Research Center short read, published August 12, 2014, on the difficulty of counting Iraq's Yazidis. It reports the 1965 Iraq census, the most recent with readily available Yazidi figures, found 70,000 Yazidis, nearly 1 percent of Iraq's roughly eight million people, and that a more recent estimate the U.S. State Department attributed to Yazidi community leaders put the population at between 500,000 and 700,000, published just days before the Islamic State's August 2014 assault on Sinjar, which the article discusses.
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Citation
PublisherPew Research Center
Publication Year2014
URLhttps://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/08/12/iraqi-yazidis-hazy-population-numbers-and-a-history-of-persecution/
Source TypeDemographic study
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Pew's own published analysis, relaying the 1965 Iraqi census (the most recent with published Yazidi figures) and a 2012 U.S. State Department estimate attributed to Yazidi community leaders, rather than either primary figure at first hand; a credible institutional secondary account, explicit about how hazy the underlying numbers are. Connections
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This source names Iraq directly: "2014, on the difficulty of counting Iraq's Yazidis."
Source Iraqi Yazidis: Hazy Population Numbers and a History of Persecution
This source names Pew Research Center directly: "A Pew Research Center short read, published August 12, 2014, on the difficulty of counting Iraq's Yazidis."
Source Iraqi Yazidis: Hazy Population Numbers and a History of Persecution
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Religions, 7 claims: 6 well-attested, 1 general references.
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