UN Report: Nearly 19,000 Civilians have been killed in Iraq since 2014

The United Nations revealed on Tuesday that over the span of 22 months, a "staggering" number of civilians, reaching close to 19,000, in Iraq were killed.

The report, which tracked the number of casualties from January 2014 through to October 2015, found that about 50 percent of the 18,802 civilians who died were killed in the capital city of Baghdad. A total of 36,245 Iraqi civilians were injured during this time frame. The report added that the actual numbers could be much higher.

"Even the obscene casualty figures fail to accurately reflect exactly how terribly civilians are suffering in Iraq," the U.N. human rights chief, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, said in a statement, reported by the New York Times.

Aside from deaths and injuries, the report also estimated that the total number of civilians who were displaced within the country was around 3.2 million with one million of the civilians being school-aged children.

The U.N. attributed the majority of the deaths to the presence of the Islamic State, a terrorist group that also goes by ISIS and ISIL.

"The so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant' (ISIL) continues to commit systematic and widespread violence and abuses of international human rights law and humanitarian law. These acts may, in some instances, amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and possibly genocide," the report wrote, according to CNN.

It added that the Islamic State has carried out numerous and horrific attacks since it seized control over the city of Mosul in June 2014. These attacks, which tended to target ethnic and religious minority groups, included beheadings, burning people alive and bulldozing people to death. The deadliest method for the civilians was explosives via suicide bombers or in vehicles.

"Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), including body-borne (BBIED), vehicle-borne (VBIED), and suicide vehicle-borne (SVBIED) devices, were the deadliest tactic used against civilians," the report said. "The remaining civilian casualties were attributed to airstrikes, shelling, small arms fire, burning, beheading, knife attacks, unexploded ordnance, and other means."

ISIS also continued to subject women and children mainly from the Yazidi minority group to slavery and sexual violence.

Although the majority of the civilian deaths could be tied to ISIS, the report added that pro-government militia could also be held responsible for some of the deaths.

The report was put together via the joint efforts of the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Data was compiled from the testimonies of eyewitnesses and survivors.

For the full report, click here.