Peacekeeping Fatalities Open Data

Peacekeepers serve in harsh conditions and at great personal risk. Tragically some make the ultimate sacrifice.
We release data in order to be transparent on the issue of fatalities.
You can analyze the data sets here and learn how the numbers of fatalities have changed over time. Note it is
the responsibility of the United Nations to notify the Member State and/or next of kin when a fatality occurs.
The data is updated only once this has happened.

Definition of the data

This set includes data on fatalities in UN peacekeeping operations. It includes:
 a unique casualty identifier
 the incident date
 the mission acronym
 the type of casualty
 the ISO code associated with the country of origin of the affected personnel
 the relevant M49 DESA code
 the type of personnel involved (see below for explanation of types)
 and the type of incident
United Nations personnel: For the purpose of this dataset, United Nations personnel serving in Peacekeeping
Missions and Special Political Missions in the field includes the United Nations military, police, government
provided personnel (including government-provided corrections personnel and non-uniformed civilian
government-provided personnel), and civilian personnel (including international civilian personnel, locally
recruited civilian personnel, consultants, individual contractors*, interns, and United Nations volunteers).
Civilian Personnel: All locally or internationally recruited civilian personnel who have contractual status with
the United Nations in the mission area on appointment, assignment, or official business travel status, including
international civilian staff, locally recruited civilian staff, consultants, individual contractors, interns and
UNVs, serving in United Nations Peacekeeping Missions or Special Political Missions.
Civilian staff: All international and locally-recruited civilian staff members holding a valid letter of
appointment under the United Nations Staff Rules and Regulations and serving in a United Nations
Peacekeeping Mission or Special Political Mission.