The Human Cost
907
historically reported total
The 907 total records reported deaths: 649 Argentine service members, 255 British service members, and three Falkland Islanders. Individual event totals sometimes mix deaths and injuries and should not be summed to reconstruct the aggregate.
Each dot below represents 1,000 human lives. Scroll to watch the scale unfold.
Working allocation: 904 soldiers killed in combat, from wounds, or from disease. Each = 1,000 lives.
3 civilians killed — from violence, famine, disease, and displacement. Wars are not fought only by soldiers.
incl. 3 civilians
How Falklands War's dead compare to other conflicts and events.
6 dead
Britain lost 6 ships sunk and 11 damaged; no Argentine surface vessels were lost after the Belgrano, as the fleet withdrew to port for the remainder of the conflict
18 dead
Many Argentine conscripts were teenagers as young as 18, inadequately equipped for the South Atlantic winter — some suffered severe frostbite and near-starvation
74 dead
The war lasted exactly 74 days, from April 2 to June 14, 1982
152 dead
Three British civilian deaths were Falkland Islanders killed by misdirected British naval gunfire
350 dead
The Argentine air force flew over 350 combat sorties and displayed extraordinary courage in low-level attacks, often at extreme range from their bases on the mainland