Tsunami Relief Stats

Wikipedia has excellent data on government and corporate pledges to the countries devastated by the Dec. 26 tsunami. It also notes, sadly, that "following last year's Bam, Iran earthquake, which killed 26,000 people, Iranian officials claim to have received just USD 17.5 million of the USD 1 billion originally pledged."

The research was part of backing up my thorough fisking of Mac Swift on Watchblog, who wrote a nutty piece claiming that Arabs were stingy, as evidenced by their lack of contributions to the tsunami relief. Unfortunately for Mac, four of the top twelve per-GDP donors are Arab states. Funny things, facts.