This report by CRN member Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) examines casualty recording practice by states. Based on both field and desk based research, Counting the Cost: casualty recording practices and realities around the world explores the way states record deatils of casualties of armed violence in over 33 countries, including Colombia, Indonesia, Liberia, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, Brazil, Burundi, Guatemala, the former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Jamaica, Nigeria, Somalia, Sudan, the UK, the USA and Venezuela.