Chapter 3 - Health
                                         
Table 3.2 Deaths in the UK Regular Armed Forces: by year of occurrence and cause1, numbers,
                     2000-2009
Numbers
 2000   2001 2 2002 2 2003   2004   2005   2006 2 2007 2 2008 2 2009  
Total
 147   142   147   177   170   160   191   204   137   205  
                                         
35   41   41 r 40   43   44   41   38 r 35 r 36  
    Cancers
 16   24   19   18   21   23   25   27   23   19  
    Diseases of the circulatory system
 16   9   19 r 14   18   16   15   7 r 8 r 8  
    Other
 3   8   3   8   4   5   1   4   4   9  
                                         
External causes of injury and poisoning
 111   100   106 r 137   126   115   149 r 164 r 100   165  
    Deaths due to accidents
 71   79 r 88 r 70   89   71   88   77 r 41 r 43  
        Land Transport Accidents
 45   50   64 r 49   61   53   61   51   26 r 28  
        Other
 26   29 r 24   21   28   18   27   26 r 15 r 15  
    Deaths due to violence
 4   5   3   41   17   22   50   77 r 52   114  
        Hostile action3
 1   2   -   40   11   21   48   73   52   107  
        Other
 3   3   3   1   6   1   2   4 r -   7  
    Suicide and Open verdicts
 36   16 r 15   26   20   22   11 r 10 r 7 r 8  
                                         
Cause not currently available
 1   1   -   -   1   1   1 r 2 r 2 r 4  
Source: DASA (Health Information)
1. DASA code all cause of death information to the World Health Organisation's International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems
    10th Revision (ICD-10).
2. Changes to data previously published in UKDS. There have been 15 amendments to the classifications given to the cause of death: 8 records have been
    amended from other accident to suicide (1 in 2001, 1 in 2006, 2 in 2007 and 4 in 2008), 1 record has been amended from LTA to Circulatory disease (2002), 1
    record has been amended from Cause Unavailable to Other accident (2006), 1 record has been amended from Cause Unavailable to Suicide (2007), 1 record
    has been amended from Other accident to Other Violent (2007), 2 records has been amended from Cause Unavailable to Circulatory disease (2 in 2007) and
    1 record has been amended from LTA to Suicide (2008).
3. DASA have included the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Cell (JCCC) categories of killed in action and died of wounds together provide information on the
    number of Service personnel who have died as a result of hostile action. The term 'killed in action' is used when a battle casualty has died outright or as a
    result of injuries before reaching a medical facility, whilst 'died of wounds' refers to battle casualties who died of wounds or other injuries after reaching a
    medical facility.


Deaths in the UK Regular Armed Forces: by cause, percentages, 20091


1. Percentages may not add up due to rounding.