DoD Numbers for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

The numbers below represent actual medical diagnoses of TBI within the U.S. Military. Other, larger numbers routinely reported in the media must be considered inaccurate because they do not reflect actual medical diagnoses. Many of these larger numbers are developed utilizing sources such as the Post Deployment Health Assessment (PDHA) or Post Deployment Health Reassessment (PDHRA). However, these documents are assessment tools with TBI screening questions and are not diagnostic tools.

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Numbers for the current year and for the immediately preceding year are updated on a quarterly basis. Other numbers are updated annually.*

Click a year to view report of the breakdown by severity and by Armed Forces branch. Incident diagnoses by calendar year.

2000: 10,963	2005: 12,192	2010 Q4: 30,703
2001: 11,830	2006: 16,946	2000 - 2010 Q4: 202,281
2002: 12,470	2007: 23,160
2003: 12,898	2008: 28,555
2004: 13,312	2009: 29,252

*2000 - 2008 annual numbers updated as of 20 May 2010
2009 - 2010 Q4 annual numbers updated as of 17 Feb 2011
2000 - 2010 Q4 cumulative totals updated as of 17 Feb 2011

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