Statistics provided by the Defense POW/MIA Office

Live Sightings: As of November 28, 2000, 1,908 first-hand live sighting reports in Indochina have been received since 1975; 1,879 (98.49%) have been resolved. 1,309 (68.61%) were equated to Americans now accounted for (i.e. returned POWs, missionaries or civilians detained for violating Vietnamese codes); 45 (2.36%) correlated to wartime sightings of military personnel or pre-1975 sightings of civilians still unaccounted for; 525 (27.52%) were determined to be fabrications. 29 (1.52%) unresolved first-hand reports are the focus of current analytical and collection efforts: 26 (1.36%) are reports of Americans sighted in a prisoner situation; 3 (.16%) are non-POW sightings. The years in which these 29 first hand sightings occurred is listed below:

Year	Pre-76	76-80	81-85	86-90	91-92	93-94	95-96	97-00	Total
	22	3	0	2	0	0	1	1	29

Accountability: : At the end of the Vietnam War, there were 2,583 unaccounted for American prisoners, missing in action or killed in action/body not recovered. As of November 28, 2000, 1,991 Americans are still missing and unaccounted for, over 90% of them in Vietnam or in areas of Laos and Cambodia where Vietnamese forces operated during the war. A breakdown of the years during which the 592 Americans were accounted for follows:

1974-1975	Post war years:	28
1976-1978	US/SRV normalization negotiations:	47
1979-1980	US/SRV talks break down:	1
1981-1984	1st Reagan Administration	23
1985-1988	2nd Reagan Administration	154
1989-1992	Bush Administration	108
1993-1996	1st Clinton Administration	191
1997-	2nd Clinton Administration	40

Unilateral Vietnamese government repatriations of remains with scientific evidence of storage have accounted for only 169 of the 425 from Vietnam; all but 3 of the 149 Americans accounted for in Laos have been the result of joint excavations. The breakdown by country of the 592 Americans accounted for from the Vietnam War:

Vietnam	425*	Laos	149*
China	2	Cambodia	16

*4 remains were recovered from indigenous personnel; 1 from North Vietnam and 3 from Laos; in addition, one person identified was actually recovered in Vietnam before the end of the war.

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