British dead and wounded in Afghanistan, month by month
What is the human cost of the war in Afghanistan? these are the latest figures - including new wounded statistics
B company of the Black Watch in the back of a Viking vehicle Photograph: Sean Smith
UPDATED: July was a very bloody month, as the latest data (see spreadsheet link) shows. 31 troops were very seriously injured.
As more soldiers die, taking the total number over that in Iraq, these are the numbers of British fatalities for Afghanistan - and Iraq, too - updated as they change. We've broken Afghanistan down month-by-month.
More complicated are the wounded numbers. Rather than one simple set of statistics, the MoD gives us three - all of which are included as a sheet in the dataset below (and summarised down the page).
• Firstly, you have the Noticas numbers. These are the most seriously wounded cases, where the family has been informed the wounded person has been "listed"
• Then there are the people registered at field hospitals - which go from the seriously to the lightly wounded, from all causes, violent and otherwise
• Lastly there are the personnel who've been evacuated by air, which could be serious combat injuries or illnesses such as dysentry
This is how the MoD defines it:
'"Very Seriously ill/ Injured/wounded" or VSI is the definition we use where the illness or injury is of such severity that life or reason is imminently endangered. "Seriously ill/Injured/Wounded" or SI is the definition we use where the patient's condition is of such severity that there is cause for immediate concern, but there is no imminent danger to life or reason. The VSI and SI categories are defined by Joint Casualty and Compassionate Policy and Procedures. They are not strictly medical categories but are designed to give an indication of the severity of the illness to inform what the individual's next of kin are told.'
What do you think? Can you do anything with the data?
• DATA: British dead and wounded, month by month as a spreadsheet - including names of dead
DATA: how many troops does each country send to Afghanistan
INTERACTIVE: rollcall of the British dead
• Can you do something with this data?
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