(CNN) -- Nearly 70,000 people have been killed in Syria since
unrest began in the country two years ago, according to the
latest estimate from the United Nations. And that might actually
be an underestimate. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights
Navi Pillay said Syria's raging civil war has made it
"increasingly challenging" to collect accurate and reliable
data. But even if that number is on the low side, it does
provide a way to put Syria's conflict in historical context.
Take a look at Syria's statistics below and see how they compare
with statistics from another recent civil war (Libya), civil
wars in countries of similar size (Yugoslavia in the 1990s and
Spain in the 1930s) and even the Civil War in the United States.
Syria uprising Ongoing since March 2011 (2 years) 70,000: The
estimated death toll as of mid-February, according to the United
Nations Human Rights Center 22,530,746: Syria's estimated
population in July 2012, according to the CIA World Factbook
0.311: Approximate percentage of the Syrian