NationMaster - Tsunami > Funds pledged (most recent) by country

Rank	Countries	Amount (top to bottom)
#1	United States:	$902,000,000.00
#2	Germany:	$634,000,000.00
#3	Japan:	$500,000,000.00
#4	France:	$444,000,000.00
#5	Australia:	$431,000,000.00
#6	Canada:	$344,960,000.00
#7	Netherlands:	$312,000,000.00
#8	Norway:	$175,300,000.00
#9	Italy:	$139,000,000.00
#10	Kuwait:	$100,000,000.00
#11	United Kingdom:	$96,000,000.00
#12	Denmark:	$77,000,000.00
#13	Sweden:	$72,200,000.00
#14	Austria:	$65,360,000.00
#15	Finland:	$65,300,000.00
#16	China:	$63,070,000.00
#17	Taiwan:	$50,250,000.00
#18	New Zealand:	$48,000,000.00
#19	Belgium:	$34,000,000.00
#20	Saudi Arabia:	$30,000,000.00
#21	Switzerland:	$29,000,000.00
#22	Ireland:	$26,120,000.00
#23	Qatar:	$25,000,000.00
#24	India:	$23,000,000.00
#25	United Arab Emirates:	$20,000,000.00
#26	Greece:	$15,000,000.00
#27	Portugal:	$13,000,000.00
#28	Luxembourg:	$11,000,000.00
#29	Czech Republic:	$9,000,000.00
#30	Hong Kong:	$6,410,000.00
#31	Singapore:	$3,100,000.00
#32	Bahrain:	$2,000,000.00
#33	Libya:	$2,000,000.00
#34	Spain:	$1,000,000.00
#35	Poland:	$1,000,000.00
#36	Cyprus:	$370,000.00
#37	Bulgaria:	$140,000.00
	Total:	$4,770,580,000.00
	Weighted average:	$128,934,594.59

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: OECD, Wikipedia, The Australian, BBC, Bloomberg, The Indian Express, CNN and The Reuters

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COMMENTARY

Danny 31st December 2004	I would love to see a correlation between funds pledged by each country and the number of its citizens killed. Might be interesting.
Nam 3rd January 2005	Lets see......the united states has a 10 trillion dollar economy, the richest country ever in the world's history.....but only donates 350 million to the worst natural disaster in recorded history? oh and by the way, japan, even though not even nearly as rich as the united states, donated 450 million, nationmaster should put japan on top.
Mike 7th January 2005	Its worth considering that very few Americans were in the area, especially when you compare it to the other countries that are pledging significant funds, like Australia,Germany, and Sweden.
Reza 13th January 2005	Turkey pledged 1.2 million and Iran 0.627 million, why is that not in the list?
Captain America 17th January 2005	Thanks Jim for telling it like it is! The US is the richest country in the world. The dollar is the reserve currency of the world. Poor nations think they need it and keep it. Those fools! They dont know they, through their work, are keeping America being the richest nation in the world so that we keep buying from them and giving them more of our paper! The perfect system for wealth accumulation! And we discovered it! Its not like America is a HUGE Enron or anything like that. After all, this situation will last forever!
shannon 18th January 2005	Canadian government has pledged $425 million and from the citizens in canada we've donated $137 million. Thats saying something for our small country of 30 million.
Donna 18th January 2005	Note that these numbers include only government contributions. They do not include private donations made directly by individuals or by individuals through non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The total number of dollars donated by private individuals and NGOs from each of these countries show the United States leading the world in dollar value of private donations to the Tsunami victims: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/dis_tsu_fun_ple_by_ngo_and_pub However, viewed as a percentage of gross national product or on a per capita basis, Norway leads the pack in private giving to the Tsunami victims: http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/dis_tsu_fun_ple_by_ngo_and_pub. and http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/dis_tsu_fun_ple_by_ngo_and_pub_cap
NYmuthaf\'nCity 21st January 2005	Naturally Israel is nowhere to be found, just confirming that parasites excel at taking but find "giving" to be a foreign concept. How do those insects sleep at night?
nick15 23rd January 2005	Brady, how is it dismal that the US is spending less per capita? Per capita doesn't buy aide, actual MONEY does.
Captain America 24th January 2005	Erik, I agree entirely. I was simply talking about the total wealth of the nation. A place where Luxemburg would fall very short. If you read my post perhaps you can detect a "hint" of sarcasm?
Steve (canada) 24th January 2005	Let's not compare nations asking for aid, and foreign governments in debt to the US. It's apples and oranges. In many cases, the nations which owe the US the most, are from infrastructure projects which don't benefit anyone but that nation's wealthy. In the case of a disaster, it's the most impoverished who suffer the most. Americans, read 'confessions of an economic hitman', then take out your wallets. LESS TALK, MORE ROCK.
Enda 25th February 2005	I think that a per capita table that includes both government & private individual donations might be more revealing.
John 7th March 2005	Just an update that private donations in Australia have surpassed US$250mil and, including public donation, that puts us at total US$1,069,000,000 in donations. Quite impressive! Europe= $450mil private donations; total $1.6billion. USA= $290mil private donations; total $350million. Australia= $250mil private donations; total $1.069billion.
upset aussie 26th May 2005	Isn't it a shame that a horrible event such as this can turn into a fight about which government gives the most. Surely we shouldn't be competing for giving the most amount of money, or providing excuses for not giving as much as others. ESPECIALLY not bad excuses like "America had less people there", when according to another statistic, they had the 6th highest amount! Perhaps, if you are upset about the donations to the tsunami victims then you could give some more yourself!
Concerned Aussie 30th June 2005	The Aussie government has donated $AUS1 billion to Indonesia and surrounding countries. The Aussie public has donated a further $AUS350 million (the Aussie spirit through mateship and adversity while only being a small, yet somehow significant country has always amazed me). There is one thing that troubles me: Where is this money, and the billions of other dollars donated by other countries, going? Straight into the hands of corrupt South-East Asian governments hands, thats where!

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