The number of service personnel who have died on active service (which is defined as military duty in an operational area) are set out in the following table:
Number All 1,030 1979 48 1980 17 1981 23 1982 265 1983 15 1984 19 1985 6 1986 12 1987 11 1988 33 1989 14 1990 19 1991 53 1992 6 1993 10 1994 15 1995 12 1996 13 1997 5 1998 8 1999 9 2000 6 2001 8 2002 6 2003 52 2004 24 2005 24 2006 69 2007 89 2008 55 2009 (up to 5 October) 84
Information on service personnel seriously injured prior to 2001 could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Since 2001, the numbers of service personnel who have been very seriously, or seriously, injured while on active service in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan are set out in the following table.
All VSI SI All 513 205 308 2001 6 2 4 2002 3 3 0 2003 50 14 36 2004 53 17 36 2005 22 7 15 2006 65 29 36 2007 134 47 87 2008 74 32 42 2009 (up to 15 September) 106 54 52