iCasualties.org maintains documented list of all fatalities for Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

Analysing the dataset for Afghanistan, we summarize the results by the year

NOTE: This contains only Afghanistan metrics. We will later update the visuals to reflect Iraq war.

USA war fatalities by year

We are approaching the levels of 2002 and hope for the best that we don’t have to suffer another wars.

Here is another view by year and month

The dataset contains the age of each person died in the war so summarizing by Age

War Deaths by Age

Checking it against the year

Why so many young deaths between age 20 and 30 for the year 2014?

Where did most of the deaths occur?

Where were the soldiers from?

Deaths by Rank

Cause of Death

Attack Types