Iraq by the numbers

Here are a couple posts about the data reported from Iraq. Yes, data. Numbers that can be use to evaluate a situation; trends and progress. All Things Conservative has a post summarizing the data. A couple notable to me (with my comments) are:

3. Actionable tips from Iraqis have increased every month this year. In January, 4,025 tips were received; February, 4,235; and March, 4,578.
5. Crude oil production reached 2.14 million barrels a day (MBD) in April of this year. It had dropped to 0.3 MBD in May of 2003. (Remember when this was a metric in the media?)
6. Revenues from oil export have only slightly increased from pre-war levels of $0.2 billion, to $0.62 billion in April. (Only slightly? That's a 200% increase. If you were the mainstream media, and this was bad information, you would phrase it, "Revenue has risen by 200% from $200M to $620M." That's an annual increase of 67%! Exxon/Mobil is called a criminal for a 16% increase.)
7. Electrical output is almost at the pre-war level of 3,958 megawatts. April's production was 3,600 megawatts. In May of 2003, production was only 500 megawatts. The goal is to reach 6,000 megawatts. (This was also an early media metric, which has lost favor)
8. The unemployment rate in June of 2003 was 50-60%, and in April of this year it had dropped to 25-40%.
13. As of January 2006, 64% of Iraqis polled said that the country was headed in the right direction.
14. Also as of January 2006, 77% said that removing Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do.
15. In May of 2003, Iraqi Security Forces were estimated at between 7,000-9,000. They numbered 250,500 in March of this year.
16. The breakdown of foreign terrorists by country of origin is interesting. The largest number come from Algeria, at 20%. The next two countries are Syria and Yemen, at 18% and 17%, respectively. (Where is Saudi Arabia?)
17. The number of foreign terrorists fighting in Iraq was estimated at between 300 and 500 in January 2004. That number increased in April of this year, to between 700 and 2,000. (Lest we forget where the front line of the war on terror is.)
18. From May 2003 and April 2006, between 1,000 and 3,000 anti-Iraqi forces have been killed each month.(Nominally, that's 72,000 defenders of tyranny dead)

The Futurist says the situation in Iraq will be close to complete by 2008 (November, to be exact).

(All via Instapundit)

And don't forgot to check in at Iraq The Model and Healing Iraq for up-to-date views of Iraq from citizens of Baghdad.

Update: IraqPundit says:

To me, these are indications that Iraqis are using their freedom to improve their personal lives and, in the process, to build their country. One of the most infuriating aspects of the Western media's presentation of Iraq is that Iraqis themselves are reduced to being the bleeding, mourning victims of terror; they are bit players in a narrative that is about Bush wrecking the country. The material in the Brookings report not only credits Iraqis with initiative, it restores to them the dignity that the Western media's one-dimensional presentation denies them.