The following table shows absence without leave statistics by calendar year for each Service since 1997:
RN Army RAF 1997 30 1,450 15 1998 30 1,850 15 1999 35 2,055 20 2000 60 2,710 25 2001 95 2,650 25 2002 105 2,950 25 2003 120 2,820 35 2004 185 3,030 55 2005 195 2,715 35 2006 155 2,330 10 2007 105 2,060 20 Notes: 1. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5 and are as at 20 November 2007. 2. Differences in figures for individual years compared to previous answers occur because personnel may have been wrongly reported as AWOL in the first instance, or conversely they may have subsequently been found to have been AWOL and the records rectified later. AWOL statistics are recorded by the number of incidences of AWOL rather than the number of people who have gone AWOL, so there may be a number of people who are represented more than once in these figures.