Coalition Troops in Iraq, 2003-2008

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Rank order: Troop-year contributions

Rank Nation Troop-years
Total 1004147
1 US 873874
NonUS 113615
2 UK 55367
3 S.Korea 9983
4 Italy 8636
5 Poland 8169
6 Australia 5234
7 Georgia 4723
8 Romania 3445
9 Ukraine 3248
10 ElSalv 2089
11 Neth 1894
12 Denmark 1857
13 Japan 1568
14 Bulgaria 1324
15 Spain 1034
16 Thailand 733
17 Azerb 726
18 Albania 548
19 Mongolia 518
20 Latvia 506
21 Hungary 374
22 Lithuan 360
23 Slovakia 319
24 Hondur 215
25 DomRep 176
26 Portug 156
27 Norway 150
28 Philipp 82

International troop contributions by nation

date src Total NonUS US UK Italy S.Korea Poland Ukraine Australia Neth Spain Thailand Georgia Romania Japan Denmark Bulgaria ElSalv Hondur DomRep Hungary Mongolia Norway Philipp Azerb Latvia Portug Lithuan Albania Slovakia Czech Armenia Estonia BosHerz Maced Kazakh Moldova Nicarag N.Zeal Tonga Singap Slovenia
03/24/03 g 297200 47200 250000 45000 200 2000
04/12/03 g 302600 47600 255000 45000 200 2000 400
05/07/03 bbc 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
05/22/03 bbc 0 0 0 0 0
05/23/03 bbc 0 0 0 0 0
06/30/03 ts 147000
07/02/03 g 11000
07/02/03 bbc 0
07/19/03 e 160000 13000 147000
08/02/03 bbc 250
08/07/03 bbc 448
08/21/03 bbc 152000 12000 140000 12000
09/03/03 bbc 1000 2300 1000 1000 900
10/19/03 ej 130000
11/14/03 g 2400 400
11/29/03 bbc 149406 17406 132000 10000 2400 0 2000 1000 1300 400 0 178 128
12/01/03 g 675 1300
12/03/03 gb 157605 25605 132000 11000 2754 675 2500 1650 1198 1300 70 783 409 485 360 370 302 300 100 150 97 151 150 100 72 85 317 43 31 29 115 9
date src Total NonUS US UK Italy S.Korea Poland Ukraine Australia Neth Spain Thailand Georgia Romania Japan Denmark Bulgaria ElSalv Hondur DomRep Hungary Mongolia Norway Philipp Azerb Latvia Portug Lithuan Albania Slovakia Czech Armenia Estonia BosHerz Maced Kazakh Moldova Nicarag N.Zeal Tonga Singap Slovenia
01/13/04 tdn 130000
03/16/04 g 2000 1100 1300 200
03/16/04 nyt 132807 22807 110000 8220 2950 500 2500 1650 850 1300 1300 451 0 500 500 450 380 370 130 96 150 120 100 110 70 110
03/17/04 a 154120 24120 130000 9000 3000 2460 1600 800 1100 1300 440 70 700 240 420 480 361 368 302 300 160 179 80 150 120 120 118 70 102 80 31 37 25 50 61
03/22/04 rmn 176513 26513 150000 11000 2700 700 1300 2000 1000 1100 1300 460 700 496 470 370
03/28/04 g 2000
04/08/04 sun 155456 25456 130000 11200 2700 700 2000 2000 1000 1100 1300 460 700 496 470 360 370 300 300
04/09/04 upi 155000 35000 120000 9000 3000 2400 1600 800 1100 1300 450 700 550 420 480 360 368 302 300 160 179 128 118 102
04/09/04 g 124780 14780 110000 8700 600 2500 1650 850 480
04/14/04 e 130000
04/16/04 e 3000 500 550
04/18/04 ap 8000 2800 3200 1400 876 900 19 1300 898 863 600 530 380 380 120 16 150 135 110 120 104 102 46 34 36 32 27
04/19/04 jen 2700
04/20/04 bbc 154670 19670 135000 8700 3000 700 2400 1650 850 1300 150 550 370
04/20/04 afp 1432 368
04/20/04 ap 1300 443 600 370 302
04/22/04 jen 470
04/24/04 dm 7500 1300
05/04/04 afp 135000
05/24/04 ap 7500 0
05/26/04 ene 138000
05/30/04 x 8600
06/04/04 afp 660 850 550 44
06/06/04 ap 850
06/20/04 bbc 132064 20064 112000 8300 2800 2350 1550 850 1300 0 450 200 500 400 420 290 140 130 150 124 110
07/09/04 x 380
07/14/04 ct 160000 470 43 45
07/15/04 wp 161974 21974 140000 7500 3120 600 2400 1650 250 1400 0 450 159 800 600 520 485 380 0 0 300 140 155 43 150 122 110 105 70 105 113 40 28 29 12 0 60 45 33
07/25/04 bbc 131050 19050 112000 8300 2800 700 2350 1550 850 1300 700 500
07/30/04 ap 160000 22000 138000
07/31/04 nyt 140000 1600 1300
09/25/04 t 138000
09/27/04 wsj 850
10/12/04 e 350
11/03/04 bbc 165306 23306 142000 8361 3169 2800 2400 1400 920 1345 700 550 496 485 380 300
11/04/04 nyt 12000 3100 2400 0 450 483 0 0 300 15 0
12/11/04 nyt 10 122 105 55 28 29 12 45
date src Total NonUS US UK Italy S.Korea Poland Ukraine Australia Neth Spain Thailand Georgia Romania Japan Denmark Bulgaria ElSalv Hondur DomRep Hungary Mongolia Norway Philipp Azerb Latvia Portug Lithuan Albania Slovakia Czech Armenia Estonia BosHerz Maced Kazakh Moldova Nicarag N.Zeal Tonga Singap Slovenia
01/14/05 nyt 1600
01/17/05 upi 2400 730
01/20/05 dt 150000
01/28/05 spt 173900 23900 150000 8760 3085 3600 2500 1589 1345 700 550 496 485
02/01/05 ct 175000 23000 152000 9000 2400 1600 1500
02/01/05 ct 177300 25300 152000 9000 3085 3600 2400 1600 1500 700 550 496 485
02/10/05 bbc 2500
02/22/05 afp 950 600
03/15/05 bbc 172319 22319 150000 8000 3085 3600 1700 1600 400 800 898 730 550 496 450 10
03/15/05 t 150000 8850 3000 3600 1700 1650 900 1500 0 0 300 800 600 500 380 380 0 0 0 180 0 0 150 120 0 100 70 100 90 50 30 30 25 0 0 40
03/16/05 nbc 3000
03/16/05 nyt 172411 22411 150000 8000 3000 3600 1700 1500 300 0 0 0 850 800 550 530 460 380 0 0 0 173 0 0 150 120 0 120 71 107
03/17/05 afp 462
04/12/05 bbc 3000 1700 1600 800 500
04/30/05 bbc 500
05/27/05 gm 138000
06/14/05 bbc 1600
06/18/05 dod 850 150 120
07/10/05 x 140000 8500
07/11/05 ms 176000 8500 1400 550
08/16/05 gs 8500 3000 3300 1500 950 570 4 0 0 850 730 600 540 425 380 0 0 0 130 10 0 151 136 0 120 120 100 90 45 35 36 35 27 0
09/03/05 g 2400 500 370 136 40
09/13/05 afp 161000 23000 138000 8000
09/18/05 ap 380
10/31/05 ap 1500
11/14/05 afp
11/17/05 r 1300
11/18/05 ap 180000 20000 160000 8000 3200
11/24/05 gns 158000
12/02/05 ft 3300
12/27/05 bbc 175560 20560 155000 8500 2900 3500 1500 0 1370 850 860 550 530 0
date src Total NonUS US UK Italy S.Korea Poland Ukraine Australia Neth Spain Thailand Georgia Romania Japan Denmark Bulgaria ElSalv Hondur DomRep Hungary Mongolia Norway Philipp Azerb Latvia Portug Lithuan Albania Slovakia Czech Armenia Estonia BosHerz Maced Kazakh Moldova Nicarag N.Zeal Tonga Singap Slovenia
01/04/06 csm 20000 2800 3200 1500 0 0 0 0 130
01/24/06 bbc 1500
03/26/06 bbc 2600 860
03/30/06 bbc 138000
04/14/06 aap 600
04/25/06 r 130000
05/23/06 g 133000 8000 2600
05/31/06 g 9000
06/02/06 bbc 2600
06/07/06 g 140000 8500 2700
06/12/06 g 130000
06/16/06 g 8000
06/19/06 aap 600
06/20/06 ft 130000 0 0 0 0 0 0
06/22/06 bbc 1400
06/26/06 bbc 600
06/26/06 g 127000
08/01/06 g 7200
08/01/06 g 8000
08/22/06 g 7000
08/23/06 gs 7200 1785 3000 900 1400 300 865 515 150 380 131 150 136 50 120 104 100 46 38 37 33 29 12
08/31/06 nyt 149500 19500 130000 7500 120 100 40
09/06/06 g 7200
09/13/06 bbc 900
09/19/06 ap 140000
09/21/06 bbc 140000 7000 1800
09/21/06 ap 1600 628
09/26/06 ap 142000
09/27/06 bbc 147000
11/13/06 x 2400
11/23/06 lat 7200
11/29/06 wp 140000
11/29/06 wp 160000
12/02/06 ap 0
12/19/06 wp 140000
date src Total NonUS US UK Italy S.Korea Poland Ukraine Australia Neth Spain Thailand Georgia Romania Japan Denmark Bulgaria ElSalv Hondur DomRep Hungary Mongolia Norway Philipp Azerb Latvia Portug Lithuan Albania Slovakia Czech Armenia Estonia BosHerz Maced Kazakh Moldova Nicarag N.Zeal Tonga Singap Slovenia
01/01/07 bas 153294 13294 140000 7200 0 1000 871 0 1400 0 0 0 300 650 0 500 150 380 0 0 0 100 0 0 150 136 0 50 120 0 96 46 34 37 33 29 12 0 0 0 0
01/08/07 csm 130000
01/12/07 ap 15857 132000 7000 0 2300 900 1300 860 470 120 103 100 46 40
01/29/07 csm 7000
02/01/07 wp 146000
02/15/07 gs 14200 7200 0 2300 900 0 850 0 0 0 300 865 0 460 150 380 0 0 0 100 0 0 150 136 0 50 120 0 100 46 34 37 33 29 12 0 0 0 0
02/21/07 wsj 7100
02/22/07 ct 153266 14266 139000 7100 2300 900 550 900 600 460 380
02/22/07 g 2300 900 550 15 900 600 460 155 380 160 150 125 60 120 99 46 35 36 40 27 11
02/23/07 csm 460
02/23/07 ap 139000 7100 2300 900 550 900 600 460 53 35
02/25/07 sdut 7100 2000 2000
03/04/07 x 850
04/09/07 x 1600
04/11/07 ap 1400
04/13/07 ap 1300
04/25/07 y
05/01/07 y 1200
05/05/07 smh 146000
05/21/07 t 5500
06/04/07 dm 5500
06/04/07 g 5500
06/24/07 is 160000 5500
06/29/07 g 5500
07/06/07 bt 1000
07/15/07 o 5500
07/20/07 yp 5500
07/30/07 sna 154
07/31/07 i 5500
08/08/07 es 5500 0
08/10/07 bbc 900 0
08/20/07 s 5500
08/28/07 ft 5500
08/30/07 bt 5500
09/03/07 es 5500
09/05/07 t 160000 5000
09/05/07 bbc 5500
09/06/07 iht 1500
09/08/07 bt 5500
09/09/07 ht 5500
09/10/07 t 170000
09/14/07 nyt 180685 11685 169000 5500 1200 900 2000
09/19/07 bbc 600
09/19/07 dm 160000 5500
09/28/07 ap 1200
10/02/07 bbc 5500
10/02/07 b 1575
10/08/07 iht 5500 900 2000
10/09/07 ap 179259 11259 168000 5000 0 1200 900 0 550 15 0 0 2000 600 0 0 155 300 0 0 0 0 0 0 120 0 0 0 120 0 100 46 35 36 40 27 11 0 0 0 0 4
10/30/07 ci 1250
10/30/07 iht 1200
11/15/07 ap 1000
11/21/07 ap 1000
11/26/07 ft 500
12/08/07 wp 175000 11755 163245 5000 933 900 2000 500 280 3 2 29 1
12/23/07 iht 1000
12/26/07 i 4500
date src Total NonUS US UK Italy S.Korea Poland Ukraine Australia Neth Spain Thailand Georgia Romania Japan Denmark Bulgaria ElSalv Hondur DomRep Hungary Mongolia Norway Philipp Azerb Latvia Portug Lithuan Albania Slovakia Czech Armenia Estonia BosHerz Maced Kazakh Moldova Nicarag N.Zeal Tonga Singap Slovenia
01/03/08 sna 400
01/14/08 ap 900
01/19/08 ap 160000
02/06/08 upi 900
02/14/08 sna 155
02/22/08 ap 156000
03/15/08 afp 4100
03/21/08 ft 2000
03/26/08 x 900
04/01/08 ap 4000
04/07/08 r 160000
date src Total NonUS US UK Italy S.Korea Poland Ukraine Australia Neth Spain Thailand Georgia Romania Japan Denmark Bulgaria ElSalv Hondur DomRep Hungary Mongolia Norway Philipp Azerb Latvia Portug Lithuan Albania Slovakia Czech Armenia Estonia BosHerz Maced Kazakh Moldova Nicarag N.Zeal Tonga Singap Slovenia
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Legend: Sources

a The Australian
aap Australian Associated Press
ap Associated Press
bt The Belfast Telegraph
b Bloomberg
bbc BBC
bas Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
ci Chosun Ilbo
csm Christian Science Monitor
ct Chicago Tribune
dm Daily Mail (London)
dod Department of Defense
dt Daily Telegraph
e The Economist
ej Edmonton Journal
ene Evening News (Edinburgh)
es The Evening Standard
ft Financial times
g The Guardian
gb The Globalist
gm Guelph Mercury
gns Gannett News Service
gs GlobalSecurity.org
ht The Hindustan Times
i The Independent
is The Independent on Sunday
jen Japan Economic News
lat LA Times
ms The Mail on Sunday
nyt New York Times
o The Observer
rmn Rocky Mountain News
sdut San Diego Union Tribune
s The Scotsman
smh Sydney Morning Herald
sna Sofia News Agency
spt St Petersburg Times
t The Times
tdn Turkish Daily News
ts Toronto Star
wp Washington Post
wsj Wall Street Journal
x Xinhua
y Yonhap
yp The Yorkshire Post

Graphs

Methodology

The set of data presented above represents an aggregation of figures reported in the news over the years. Only news articles (not opinion articles) were used that reported contemporaneous troop levels and the date of the article's publication was recorded. Other sources included GlobalSecurity.org, an online news source that compiles detailed military statistics, and the US Department of Defense. For the purposes of this study, troop contributions are defined as troops serving in the Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I), often referred to informally as the 'Coalition of the Willing'. Only troops are counted that are actually stationed in Iraq (not just "in theater").

No distinction was made between combat and non-combat troops. This would be a more difficult, though worthwhile, project to undertake. In some cases, serious discrepancies exist between reported figures. For example 2007 and early 2008 Australian troop figures are trifurcated at levels of approximately 500, 1000 and 1500. This probably occurs as a result of inaccurate or vague reporting and these figures correspond to combat troops, combat and non-combat troops in Iraq, and all troops in theater respectively. Therefore the correct troop figure is 1000 in this case. Nevertheless, no attempt to prune the data was made.

The calculation of troop-years deserves some explanation as well. A troop-year is defined as the equivalent of a single troop serving in Iraq for a period of a year. The troop-year contributions from each country can be thought of as integrals under the curves described by the data plotted in each graph. The actual methodology was on a per month basis. To obtain a given country's troop level in a given month all reported troop levels in that month were averaged together. If there were no reports in that month, then it is assumed that there was no change from the previous month's deployment. The number of troop-years in that month is then obtained by dividing by 12.

Links

icasualties.org An outstanding database of casualties in Iraq.
globalsecurity.org An online military news source with detailed periodic reports on coalition numbers.
Wikipedia: Multinational force in Iraq
The Coalition of the Willing: Numbers and News
U.S.- Led Coalition Forces in Iraq
The Iraq Index Monthly reports from Brookings on Iraq metrics.

Compiled by Jason DeJoannis, 4/13/2008
Copyright 2003-2008 reproduction permitted according to the GNU General Public License
Acknowledgments: OpenOffice, Google News, Perl, San Diego Public Library
Send comments, corrections etc to jdejoannis@yahoo.com