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Central Emergency Response Fund > Contributors > Pledged	$10,000,000.00	[5th of 28]
Funds commited to Tsunami aid	$792,000,000.00	[1st of 22]
DEFINITION: Total amount of funds commited to Tsunami aid. Fund commitments refer to the amount of money governments have officially set aside for Tsunami relief. Funds pledged (click here to view the statistic) refers to the amount countries have publicly announced they would contribute. Hence, pledges can often fall far short of the final commitment.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Central Emergency Response Fund
Funds committed to emergency Tsunami aid	$313,000,000.00	[2nd of 22]
DEFINITION: Amount of funds (in US Dollars) committed to emergency aid. Emergency aid commitments refers to the amount of money governments have officially contributed and have quickly dispersed for emergency Tsunami relief. This amount is taken out of the total aid commitment (click here to view the total Tsunami aid commitment statistic).
SOURCE: OECD, October, 2005.
Tsunami > Economic impact Not much of an effect as most US insurers have little exposure to Asia and those that do lay off risk to reinsurers, officials and industry watchers say (Dec 27)
DEFINITION: The tsunami that has devastated parts of Asia and killed more than 28,400 has affected companies, economies and markets across the globe. Here is a snapshot of some of the financial effects of the disaster (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT).
SOURCE: OECD, October 2005
Tsunami > Foreign tourists missing	456	[6th of 37]
DEFINITION: Number of foreign tourists visiting the tsunami hit areas who are not reachable, (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT).
SOURCE: BBC, Bloomberg, BBC, Rediff, The Herald Sun, The Indian Express and The Reuters
Tsunami > Foreigners death toll	35	[4th of 34]
DEFINITION: The number of foreigners feared dead is in the range of thousands. Only 112 foreigners have been confirmed dead and the countrywise breakup of the persons identified is given below (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT).
SOURCE: BBC, Wikipedia, Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs, Reuters, US State Department, CBC News, http://www.stuff.co.nz/ and CNN
Tsunami > Funds pledged	$902,000,000.00	[1st of 37]
DEFINITION: Funds pledged by the governments of developed countries for tsunami relief (as of September 30th 2005). The World Bank has pledged $250 million and the European Union $44 million. There have been significant amounts coming in from the UN and other aid agencies like IMF, UNDP, UNESCO, Red Cross, etc. which are not mentioned here. Private donations and collections from media campaigns are also high in many European countries, but have not been included here.
SOURCE: BBC, CNN, Wikipedia, Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs and French deputy foreign minister Renaud Muselier
Tsunami > Funds pledged by NGOs and public	$653,000,000.00	[1st of 24]
DEFINITION: Funds pledged by the NGOs and public of developed countries for tsunami relief (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT). This list does not include corporate donations.
SOURCE: OECD, Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters
Tsunami > International aid packages $350m in government donations, plus military assistance involving 12,600 personnel, 21 ships, 14 cargo planes and more than 90 helicopters. Around $200m of private donations are also pouring in, with $120m donated to the US branches of the Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children, and to Catholic Relief Services.
DEFINITION: Countries around the globe have stepped forward with pledges of cash and assistance to the victims of the southern Asian earthquake and tsunami disaster. The following is a list of contributions pledged by countries, (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT) compiled from reports by Reuters bureaux and United Nations agencies. There are packages coming from international Aid agencies like the IMF, The Red Cross, UNEP, UNICEF and WHO.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters
Tsunami > Total aid package	$1,003,000,000.00	[2nd of 37]
DEFINITION: This is a chart of the total aid coming in from the following countries. It includes the funds pledged by the respective governments and the amounts collected by NGOs and the public (as of Saturday, Jan 22nd, 2005 - 06:30 PM GMT). Aid" is an ambiguous term that may cover a wide variety of methods, such as 'soft' loans or 'tied aid', where the money has to be spent buying goods ands services from the donating country. The numbers below also represent only the pledged contributions. Arguably, only funds that are actually transferred should be counted. For example, after the Bam earthquake in December 2003, the Iranian government received only USD 17.5 million of the USD one billion that was promised.
SOURCE: BBC, Alert net by Reuters, Sify news and The Age
Tsunami aid commitments as a percent of pledges	87.8%	[4th of 16]
DEFINITION: Percentages of Tsunami aid committed out of the aid originally pledged. For example, if a percentage on this statistic is above 50%, this means the country in question contributed over 50% of the amount of Tsunami aid it originally promised.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters