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Friday, January 19th, 2007 05:44 pm
I taught myself how to calculate weighted averages this afternoon so I could find out the average age of Canadian, American and British personnel killed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

FWIW, based on my calculations:

  • CDN: 29.8 years - most common rank: corporal (Afghanistan only)

  • US: 28.7 years (Afghanistan), 26.1 years (Iraq) - most common rank: sergeant/staff sergeant (Afghanistan), specialist (US Army)/lance corporal (USMC) (Iraq)

  • UK: 28.2 years (Afghanistan & Iraq) - most common rank: lance corporal (equivalent to CDN corporal/US sergeant)


  • Raw statistics courtesy of icausalties.org.