More than 172,000 lives have been lost in the two decades of war in Afghanistan
Numbers killed
number
000s
10
20
30
40
50
60
Afghan national military and police
66,000
Taliban and other opposition fighters
51,191
Afghan civilians
47,245
US contractors
3,846
US service members
2,448
Other allied service members
1,144
Aid workers
444
Journalists
72