Casualties
- The Sichuan Earthquake caused 69,195 people dead, which makes this event the 21st deadliest earthquake of all time.
- 18,392 people were missing;
- 374,643 people were injured (as of 22nd September 2008, 18:18 China Standard Time).
Property Damage
The Sichuan Earthquake caused 80% of the housings destroyed, leaving at least 5 million people without housing, although the number could be as high as 11 million. Millions of livestock and a significant amount of agriculture were also destroyed, including 12.5 million animals, mainly birds. In the Sichuan province a million pigs died out of 60 million total.
Catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide reported official estimates of insurers' losses at US$1 billion from the earthquake; estimated total damages exceed US$20 billion. Even with the five largest cities in Sichuan suffering only minor damage from the quake, some estimates of the economic loss run higher than US$75 billion,[86] making the earthquake one of the costliest natural disasters in Chinese history.
Catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide reported official estimates of insurers' losses at US$1 billion from the earthquake; estimated total damages exceed US$20 billion. Even with the five largest cities in Sichuan suffering only minor damage from the quake, some estimates of the economic loss run higher than US$75 billion,[86] making the earthquake one of the costliest natural disasters in Chinese history.