Swedish among top donors to aid Haiti
Sweden's total financial aid to quake-hit Haiti amounts to 180 million Swedish kronor (17.7 million euros, 25.6 million dollars).
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"Sweden's support for the emergency situation in Haiti now amounts to 180 million Swedish kronor. In addition, Sweden will disburse its entire annual contribution of 425 million Swedish kronor to the UN Central Emergency Response fund (CERF)," the foreign ministry said in a statement.
The UN said Friday that it was launching an appeal for 562 million dollars from donors following Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude quake which devastated the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation of nine million and was the strongest in more than a century.
"Approximately 100 million of the 180 million Swedish kronor is new money that is up front. The rest of the sum is money that we had made available in the UN system before the crisis," a spokesman for International Development Cooperation minister Gunilla Carlsson, Peter Larsson, told AFP.
At least 70,000 bodies have been buried in mass graves and officials fear the final death toll could top 200,000, while 250,000 people were injured and up to 1.5 million were left homeless.
Here is a list of countries which have pledged emergency relief funds for Haiti as of Sunday (Sweden updated), according to data on the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs' website. Some of these countries and others not on this list have sent aid in other forms, such as search and rescue teams or supplies.
Australia 8.99 million dollars
Belgium 651,876 dollars
Brazil 15.5 million dollars
Britain 10.17 million dollars
Cambodia 50,000 dollars
Canada 53.66 million dollars
China 5.4 million dollars
Colombia 50,000 dollars
Czech Republic 288,600 dollars
Denmark 7.4 million dollars
Estonia 323,232 dollars
European Commission 4.3 million dollars
Finland 1.8 million dollars
Germany 3.46 million dollars
Greece 290,000 dollars
Grenada 100,000 dollars
Guyana 1 million dollars
Iceland 55,000 dollars
India 1 million dollars
Indonesia 1 million dollars
Ireland 360,750 dollars
Italy 1.6 million dollars
Japan 5.3 million dollars
Luxembourg 722,900 dollars
Mexico 8 million dollars
Monaco 72,150 dollars
Morocco 1 million dollars
Netherlands 2.89 million dollars
New Zealand 719,942 dollars
Norway 4.9 million dollars
Poland 1.08 million dollars
Russia 700,000 dollars
Singapore 50,000 dollars
Slovenia 72,150 dollars
South Africa 133,333 dollars
South Korea 1 million dollars
Spain 4.3 million dollars
Sweden 25.6 million dollars
Switzerland 1.9 million dollars
Taiwan 5 million dollars
Thailand 20,000 dollars
United States 100 million dollars
Last Updated (Tuesday, 19 January 2010 09:28)






















