President Barack Obama's administration estimated that between 64 and 116 civilians have died during the years 2009-1015 from U.S. drone strikes outside of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the same time span, the administration said between 2,372 and 2,581 militants had been killed by drones.
In an executive order, Obama tasked his administration with working in a uniform way to ensure that civilians aren't killed by drones.
Human rights groups are unlikely to be satisfied by the methods the administration used to calculate the figures and the geographic boundaries of the disclosure. Even ahead of the report's release, they dismissed the anticipated tally as being too low.
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