As of 29, according to latest figures released by national government, in this disaster, the death toll in Indonesia has reached 45268 people; Sri Lanka, there are at least 22493 people were killed, including at least 70 foreigners; India 10000 people dead, and the other thousands missing; Thailand, 1829 people were killed, of which 473 were foreign tourists, and another 5,000 people missing and several other countries also have 390 people were killed.

So far, the casualties of foreign tourists in Germany has confirmed that 26 people were killed and about 1,000 people missing; Australia has eight people were confirmed dead; New Zealand has more than 300 people missing in Thailand; Finland 13 tourists killed in Thailand, and the other Nearly 200 tourists unaccounted for.

The face of unprecedented gravity of the disaster affected countries have taken measures to rescue operations. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to visit island of Sumatra, after the disaster, indicating the implementation of nationwide disaster relief, also ordered the Indonesian military to send communications, engineering and health to the disaster areas to conduct rescue soldiers, using large-scale engineering machinery disaster clean-up debris, to prevent the epidemic and other diseases outbreak. The Indonesian government also decided to set aside from the fiscal budget of 500 billion rupiah (about 5.6 million U.S. dollars) in funds for the hard-hit Aceh region, food, medicine and buried the victims of such emergencies. In Sri Lanka, the authorities rescue trapped foreign tourists, the country's Tourist Board with effect from 28 rooms in the capital Colombo and the affected areas to open up a road transport line, is responsible for withdrawal of foreign tourists. The Thai government has ordered the Ministry of Health and other government departments to carry out an active rescue operations, and used, including navy and air forces, police and various social groups, including all rescue forces. This is known as "land of smiles," said the countries have to mobilize all the people, to the foreigners affected by disasters to lend a helping hand. In India, the Indian army to the disaster area has invested 25 aircraft, 30 helicopters, 30 ships and 4,000 soldiers. At present, some 650 tons of relief supplies were delivered to affected areas. The Government of India is also preparing to establish an independent tsunami early warning system.

The United Nations is responsible for humanitarian affairs Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General on the 28th called on rich countries, especially the West to the South and Southeast Asian countries to provide humanitarian assistance to help them carry out relief and reconstruction. So far, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, the Philippines, China, the United States, European Union, Canada, Singapore, Argentina, Qatar, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, Japan and other countries and international organizations to provide assistance to the affected countries. Chinese Government to Sri Lanka to provide value to about 1,000 million yuan relief materials have arrived in Colombo. Chinese Ambassador to Thailand Zhang Jiuhuan 29, Thai Foreign Minister also handed over to the Chinese government donated 300,000 U.S. dollars aid has.