U.S. Active Duty Military Deaths Since 2001

Department of Defense records detail U.S. military active duty deaths from January 1, 2001 onward. The listing includes branch of service, age at death, military occupational code, location of death, and casualty category.

Use Cases

• Analyze casualty category frequency across branch of service to identify high-risk military occupations.
• Model age at death distributions by location of death and casualty category for demographic risk assessment.
• Investigate trends in military occupational code assignments for fatalities over time.

Strengths

• Records originate from the authoritative Department of Defense.
• Covers all U.S. military active duty deaths from January 1, 2001 onward.
• Includes multiple analytically relevant features like casualty category and location of death.

Limitations

• The dataset's last update was in November 2020, making it potentially stale for recent analysis.
• Specific row count, column count, and sample data are unavailable for assessing scale and completeness.
• Data is provided only in the legacy XLS format, which may require conversion for modern tools.

Provenance

Source

Department of Defense

Time Range

From January 1, 2001 onward

Freshness

Last updated 2020-11-29.

Geography

U.S. military active duty personnel, global locations of death