The Cost of 9/11

$40 billion
Insured losses from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks

$2 trillion
Direct government spending on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq so far

6,233
Total U.S. fatalities in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001

1
Number of months (August, 2011) that no U.S. troops died in Iraq since March 2003.

600,000
Number of veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan treated in veterans medial facilities to date

$600 billion
Estimated minimum cost of future disability and health care payments to Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans

137,000
Civilians who have died violently in Afghanistan and Iraq in the last 10 years

46,000 and 99,000
Number of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan today, respectively

$312 billion
United States defense spending in 2000

$700 billion
United States defense spending in 2011

Sources: Slate; New York Times; Iraq Body Count; Time