By January 5, 2005, the death toll in Maldives remains to be 82 with 26 missing, 13,311 homeless and 8,352 evacuated. There are altogether 3,997 houses damaged in the disaster.

On January 4, Maldives President Abdul Gayoom, accompanied by Foreign Minister Fathulla Jameel and Finance and Treasury Minister Mohamed Jaleel, left for Indonesia to attend the Special ASEAN Leaders' Meeting on the Aftermath of Earthquake and Tsunami to be held on January 6.

The National Disaster Management Center of Maldives opened the website http://www.tsunamimaldives.mv to provide latest information on the disaster.

On January 4, the Maldives government spokesman Ahmed Shaheed said that tsunamis almost hit all the Maldives population,one third of whom were the hardest affected. Having resumed contact with all the resident islands, now the government is delivering aids to the disaster-hit people. Of the 199 resident islands, 14 become empty, 79 lack drinking water, 26 are out of power and 24 are out of telephone services. 44 schools, 30 medical centers and the government office facilities on 60 islands need reconstruction. According to government estimates, the fishermen on one fourth islands have been destroyed, so have been the crops on some islands.