The following table provides the outflow, voluntary outflow and voluntary outflow rate for the Royal Marines for each year since 1997.
Total outflow Voluntary outflow Voluntary outflow rate as a percentage of strength 1997 530 280 4.6 1998 690 410 6.9 1999 580 310 5.3 2000 540 270 4.5 2001 580 360 6.0 2002 590 380 6.1 2003 540 320 5.0 2004 650 390 6.1 2005 620 430 6.7 2006 540 380 5.9 2007 520 370 5.6 Notes: 1. These figures are drawn from trained regular Royal Marine personnel. 2. Promotions to officer from the ranks, demotions to the ranks from officer and transfers to other services have been excluded. 3. When rounding to the nearest 10, numbers ending in five have been rounded to the nearest multiple of 20 to prevent systematic bias. 4. Due to ongoing data validation following the introduction of JPA, the flows since October 2006 are still provisional.