Personnel fatalities in United Nations missions, by year, up to 30 June 2008

The document presents a detailed table of United Nations personnel fatalities from 1948 to June 2008. It categorizes deaths into those under the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), non-DPKO missions (special political or peacebuilding field missions), and general peacekeeping fatalities. The data shows a total of 2,482 fatalities over the period, with the highest annual death tolls occurring in 1961, 1993, and the early 2000s.

• The year with the highest number of total fatalities was 1993, with 252 deaths recorded.
• As of the reporting period, seven of the 16 active peacekeeping missions were located in Africa.

APA

Boshoff, H. (2008). Personnel fatalities in United Nations missions, by year, up to 30 June 2008. Institute for Security Studies. https://issafrica.org/topics/peacekeeping-and-conflict-management/01-sep-2008-personnel-fatalities-in-united-nations-missions-by-year-up-to-30-june-2008-henri-boshoff

Chicago

Boshoff, Henri. Personnel fatalities in United Nations missions, by year, up to 30 June 2008. Institute for Security Studies, 2008. https://issafrica.org/topics/peacekeeping-and-conflict-management/01-sep-2008-personnel-fatalities-in-united-nations-missions-by-year-up-to-30-june-2008-henri-boshoff.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{boshoff2008personnel, author = {Boshoff, Henri}, title = {{Personnel fatalities in United Nations missions, by year, up to 30 June 2008}}, institution = {Institute for Security Studies}, year = {2008}, month = sep, url = {https://issafrica.org/topics/peacekeeping-and-conflict-management/01-sep-2008-personnel-fatalities-in-united-nations-missions-by-year-up-to-30-june-2008-henri-boshoff}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }