The latest report from the Brooking Institute as reported here: A Surge of Optimism:

1. GDP has doubled


2. potable water access doubled


3. access to sewage systems doubled


4. electricity nearly doubled


5. ten times as many phones


6. one hundred times as many cell phones


7. internet access from nonexistent to widely available in cafes


8. thousands of free TV, radio, and newspaper outlets


9. right of speech and assembly and to vote,


10. freedom to purchase cars without paying exorbitant tariffs

But I understand not all measures are positive.  Women’s access to arbitrary detention, torture and rape has gone done since the untimely death of Uday Hussein, so one must keep a balanced view of things here. (/sarcasm) I mean we did need to discuss the positively utopian state of women’s rights under Saddam, right?

Update: These numbers are since 2002, not since the end of the war.