Chapter 3 - Health
                             
Table 3.6 Number of UK Operational Fatalities1,2,3,4
This section provides the numbers of fatalities and casualties involving personnel deployed on operations. In agreement with the Under Secretary of State for Defence, DASA are responsible for reporting on all medium-scale operations since 2001. Data on operations smaller than medium-scale are not centrally compiled. The operations reported on below reflect those operations for which data have been published on the MOD website. The tables present the numbers of fatalities and casualties since reporting began in 2001 up until end of 2007.

Although there are no known data quality issues, the data in this table are outside the scope of National Statistics because they do not currently meet all of the high professional quality assurance standards set out in the National Statistics Code of Practice, with regards to the guidelines on release practice procedures.

    2001   2002   2003   2004   2005   2006   2007
Afghanistan Total -   3   -   1   1   39   42
  Killed in Action -   -   -   1   1   20   36
  Died of Wounds -   -   -   -   -   1   1
  Other -   3   -   -   -   18   5
Iraq Total -   -   53   22   23   29   47
  Killed in Action -   -   39   10   18   18   24
  Died of Wounds -   -   1   -   2   9   13
  Other -   -   13   12   3   2   10
Source: DASA (Health Information)
1. Figures include UK Regular and Reservist Armed Forces Personnel.
2. 2001 data for Afghanistan starts 7 October.
3. Some deaths may not have clearly defined cause information and could be subject to change depending on the outcome of the Boards of Inquiry and/or     Coroners' Inquest.
4. These data include all deaths occurring as a result of accidental or violent causes while deployed and deaths due to disease related causes during the     deployment.