Every U.S. Fatality in the Afghanistan War: 2001 - 2021 ⚔️📊

This data visualizations lists every U.S. fatality in the Afghanistan War from 2001 - 2021. The flags at the bottom detail the cumulative death rate per capita (per one million people) by state.

The War in Afghanistan, an offshoot of the War on Terror (*), was a conflict that took place in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2021. It started when the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate. The war ended with the Taliban regaining power after a 19 years and 8 months insurgency against allied NATO and Afghan Armed Forces. It was the longest war in United States history.

According to the Costs of War project at Brown University, the war killed 176,000 people in Afghanistan; 46,319 civilians, 69,095 military and police and at least 52,893 Taliban fighters. According to the UN, after the 2001 invasion, more than 5.7 million former refugees returned to Afghanistan. However, since the renewed Taliban offensive of 2021, 2.6 million Afghans remain refugees or have fled, mostly to Pakistan and Iran, and another 4 million Afghans remain internally displaced persons within the country.

(*) The War on Terror (WoT), also known as the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) and the U.S. War on Terror, is the term that refers to an ongoing international military campaign launched by the United States government following the September 11 attacks. The targets of the campaign are primarily extremist groups located throughout the Muslim world, with the most prominent groups being Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and their various franchise groups. The naming of the campaign uses a metaphor of war to refer to a variety of actions that do not constitute a specific war as traditionally defined.

Chapters:
00:00 U.S. Fatalites in Afghanistan War: Nov 2001 - Dec 2004
00:29 U.S. Fatalites in Afghanistan War: Jan 2005 - Dec 2007
01:44 U.S. Fatalites in Afghanistan War: Jan 2008 - Dec 2009
03:43 U.S. Fatalites in Afghanistan War: Jan 2010 - Dec 2010
05:49 U.S. Fatalites in Afghanistan War: Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
07:36 U.S. Fatalites in Afghanistan War: Jan 2012 - Dec 2012
08:53 U.S. Fatalites in Afghanistan War: Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
09:43 U.S. Fatalites in Afghanistan War: Jan 2015 - Aug 2021

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