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The Iran War, in Numbers
Here are some statistics to give context to the conflict.
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In Tehran this month.
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Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times
By
Sam Sifton
I’m the host of The Morning.
April 23, 2026,
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I grew up reading the Harper’s Index, a collection of statistics that has run in Harper’s Magazine since 1984. There’s something both spare and illuminating about each one. The collected facts amount to a kind of poetry, as these three stanzas from the
May 2026 issue
suggest:
Percentage of Americans who say that, as children, they knew a compassionate, nonjudgmental adult: 35
Percentage of these Americans who say that their mother was such a person: 50
That their father was: 5
As the cease-fires in Iran and Lebanon tremble, my colleague Evan Gorelick and I thought an index would be a useful way to examine the war. Numbers can help us understand what’s happening in the region and in the world beyond it, as the U.S. and Iran jockey for control of the Strait of Hormuz and Pakistani officials try to nudge diplomats from Washington and Tehran toward the negotiating table in Islamabad.
Oil and transit
The share of the world’s oil that passed through the Strait of Hormuz before the war:
one-fifth
.
The number of ships that sailed through the strait on any given day before the war:
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