Deployment locations of Canadian Forces personnel who began a deployment in support of the mission in Afghanistan during 2001–2008
| Year | Location*; no. of personnel (no. of person-years†) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kandahar | Kabul | United Arab Emirates | Arabian Gulf | Multiple locations‡ | Unspecified | |
| 2001 | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 145 (8.1) | 1448 (171.3) | 139 (12.7) | 15 (0.8) |
| 2002 | 615 (240.1) | 1 (0.1) | 907 (322.3) | 2930 (711.5) | 647 (223.1) | 157 (58.3) |
| 2003 | 0 (0.0) | 1 261 (438.0) | 916 (225.1) | 1294 (326.5) | 1 809 (592.7) | 29 (2.6) |
| 2004 | 0 (0.0) | 2 702 (757.4) | 545 (102.4) | 252 (31.7) | 2 504 (646.4) | 60 (6.9) |
| 2005 | 518 (139.4) | 1 251 (354.9) | 304 (62.7) | 221 (52.5) | 1 670 (450.6) | 41 (3.8) |
| 2006 | 3 754 (1 427.8) | 410 (70.9) | 507 (133.0) | 230 (60.0) | 1 652 (542.5) | 132 (15.9) |
| 2007 | 5 658 (1 986.2) | 168 (56.0) | 537 (129.1) | 475 (64.4) | 2 085 (656.7) | 134 (19.7) |
| 2008 | 7 055 (2 358.9) | 132 (44.7) | 533 (115.9) | 1 057 (351.6) | 2 034 (588.6) | 111 (19.2) |
| Overall§ | 12 745 (6 152.4) | 4 144 (1 721.9) | 3 125 (1 098.7) | 5 260 (1 769.6) | 4 655 (3 713.4) | 584 (127.2) |
↵* See Methods for details about deployment locations.
↵† Person-years are lower than the number deployed because standard deployments typically lasted 6 months and others were for shorter or longer terms.
↵‡ Personnel in this category are not included in the other, single-location categories.
↵§ The sum of the numbers of personnel for each location is greater than the overall number because personnel may have been deployed more than once to the same location or had a deployment that spanned 2 or more years over the study period.