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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1   Russia: 16,833 deaths 
# 2   Japan: 8,072 deaths 
# 3   Brazil: 7,090 deaths 
# 4   United States: 4,602 deaths 
# 5   Thailand: 3,670 deaths 
# 6   Mexico: 2,899 deaths 
# 7   Egypt: 2,315 deaths 
# 8   Korea, South: 1,810 deaths 
# 9   Colombia: 1,478 deaths 
# 10   Poland: 1,229 deaths 
# 11   Romania: 1,203 deaths 
# 12   Germany: 1,107 deaths 
# 13   Argentina: 1,028 deaths 
# 14   Spain: 804 deaths 
# 15   Peru: 707 deaths 
# 16   Venezuela: 686 deaths 
# 17   South Africa: 650 deaths 
# 18   Chile: 648 deaths 
# 19   Ecuador: 496 deaths 
# 20   Canada: 490 deaths 
# 21   Lithuania: 455 deaths 
# 22   Australia: 353 deaths 
# 23   Kyrgyzstan: 350 deaths 
# 24   Cuba: 335 deaths 
# 25   Latvia: 317 deaths 
# 26   Hungary: 309 deaths 
# 27   Moldova: 307 deaths 
# 28   Sweden: 303 deaths 
# 29   Finland: 297 deaths 
# 30   El Salvador: 283 deaths 
# 31   Czech Republic: 277 deaths 
# 32   Netherlands: 256 deaths 
# 33   Azerbaijan: 238 deaths 
# 34   Dominican Republic: 206 deaths 
= 35   Austria: 179 deaths 
= 35   Slovakia: 179 deaths 
# 37   Nicaragua: 167 deaths 
# 38   Costa Rica: 164 deaths 
# 39   Croatia: 157 deaths 
# 40   Panama: 151 deaths 
# 41   Uruguay: 149 deaths 
# 42   Norway: 136 deaths 
# 43   Paraguay: 133 deaths 
# 44   Denmark: 130 deaths 
# 45   United Kingdom: 123 deaths 
# 46   New Zealand: 115 deaths 
# 47   Estonia: 96 deaths 
# 48   Slovenia: 68 deaths 
# 49   Israel: 61 deaths 
= 50   Switzerland: 53 deaths 
= 50   Georgia: 53 deaths 
# 52   Puerto Rico: 51 deaths 
# 53   Bahamas, The: 26 deaths 
# 54   Belize: 19 deaths 
# 55   Kuwait: 18 deaths 
# 56   Barbados: 13 deaths 
= 57   Bahrain: 9 deaths 
= 57   Malta: 9 deaths 
= 57   Iceland: 9 deaths 
# 60   Luxembourg: 5 deaths 
# 61   Cayman Islands: 3 deaths 
Total: 64,379 deaths  
Weighted average: 1,055.4 deaths  



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NOTES: These statistics are derived from official causes of death detailed on certificates of death by each country. Rather than being a true indicator of the number of deaths attributed to a particular cause, mortality statistics reveal more about a particular country's reporting processes.

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COMMENTARY     

Ian Graham
Staff Editor

17th May 2005
At least 45 people died and more 40 others were missing after a river ferry with more than 100 passengers on board sank during a storm in southern Bangladesh on May 15.

The following day, the ferry was salvaged and nine bodies retrieved from it, bringing the number of bodies recovered on May 16 to 35. Ten more bodies were recovered on the day of the accident. However, the state-owned Bangladesh Television reported that a total of 56 bodies had been recovered.

The ferry went down during a storm in the choppy Tentulia river at Galachipa, 350 kilometers (220 miles) south of the capital, Dhaka. The vessel was registered to carry only 80 people.

Many of Bangladesh's ferries have little or no safety equipment, and operators and owners often neglect weather forecasts and shipping rules despite repeated accidents. At least 118 people died in the last major ferry disaster, on the river Buriganga near Dhaka, in February.


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