Chapter 5 of "Earthquake and Tsunami":
The Grim Statistics
Dead, missing, injured, displaced
All figures below have to be rough approximations. It is in the nature and scope of the disaster that more precise figures are unlikely ever to be possible. For political reasons, some governments under-estimate while others over-estimate; also, internal unrest and civil wars in some countries make precise counting impossible. The numbers of the dead and the missing have been combined since more than two months after the disaster very few of those counted as missing will be found alive (adapted from source:Wikipedia).
Country Dead and missing Injured Displaced Remarks Indonesia 320,000 100,000 700,000 Only the northern parts of the island of Sumatra is
affected Sri Lanka 44,000 35,000 580,000 Missing figure includes 19,000 claimed from areas
under control of Tamil Tiger insurgents India 22,000 - 380,000 Around 14,500 die on the east Coast of India east
coast of mainland India and in the Andaman & Nicobar
islands Thailand 14,000 8,500 - Dead include more than 2,400 foreigners (mostly
tourists) Burma (Myanmar) 800 45 3,200 Figures highly unreliable Somalia 300 - 5,000 Figures highly unreliable Maldives 134 - 20,000 F Malaysia 75 300 - F Tanzania 10 - - F Seychelles 3 - - F Bangladesh 2 - - F South Africa 2 - - F Kenya 1 2 - F Yemen 1 - - F Madagascar - - 1,000 F Total (approx.) 400,000 144,000 1,600,000
(presumed dead)
(temporarily or permanently)
Among the 350,000 inhabitants of the A&N islands there
ar3e more than 7,500 dead ; the Nicobars are more affected
than the Andamans
Foreign visitors (mostly tourists) to the countries directly affected have also been killed or are missing:
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