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Quarterly Service Personnel Statistics: 2026

UK service personnel statistics on strengths, requirements, intake, applications and outflow, by service for 2026.

• From: Ministry of Defence
• Published: 2 April 2026
• Last updated: 23 September 2026
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  1. 23 September 2026

     Updated: 'Quarterly service personnel statistics: 1 July 2026', 'Accessible Excel tables to the UK armed forces quarterly service personnel statistics 1 July 2026' and 'Accessible ODS tables to the UK armed forces quarterly service personnel statistics 1 July 2026 '.

  2. 3 September 2026

     Added: 'Quarterly service personnel statistics: 1 July 2026'.

  3. 4 June 2026

     Added: Quarterly service personnel statistics: 1 April 2026.

  4. 2 April 2026

     First published.

Documents

Quarterly service personnel statistics: 1 July 2026

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Accessible Excel tables to the UK armed forces quarterly service personnel statistics 1 July 2026

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 529 KB

Accessible ODS tables to the UK armed forces quarterly service personnel statistics 1 July 2026

ODS, 468 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Quarterly service personnel statistics: 1 April 2026

HTML

Accessible ODS tables to the UK armed forces quarterly service personnel statistics: 1 April 2026

ODS, 458 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Accessible Excel tables to the UK armed forces quarterly service personnel statistics: 1 April 2026

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 520 KB

Quarterly service personnel statistics: 1 January 2026

HTML

Accessible ODS tables to the UK armed forces quarterly service personnel statistics: 1 January 2026

ODS, 451 KB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Accessible Excel tables to the UK armed forces quarterly service personnel statistics: 1 January 2026

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 512 KB

Details

This is a quarterly publication containing UK service personnel statistics on strengths, requirements, intake, applications and outflow. It replaces previous Ministry of Defence tri-service publications including the monthly and quarterly personnel reports.