Haiti by the Numbers
Years since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti: 9
Estimated number of aftershocks that measured 4.5 or greater: 59
Number of people who died in the earthquake, according to Haitian government: 316,000
Number of people displaced: 1,300,000
Number of people who remained in internally displaced persons camps, as of September 2017: 37,867
Estimated population of Canaan, a barren hillside north of the capital, pre-earthquake: 0
Estimated population of Canaan now: 300,000
Minimum number of new homes necessary to meet demand: 500,000
Estimated damage and economic losses from earthquake, in percent of Haiti’s GDP: 120 percent
Total amount of aid disbursed by donors, since 2010: $7,538,885,632
Amount of aid given to the government in the form of budget support: $280,844,071
Total amount of approved World Bank projects in Haiti since the earthquake: $1.167 billion
Total aid awarded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID): $2.3 billion
Of that amount, percent of which was given to organizations or companies located inside the Beltway (Maryland, DC, Virginia): 55.5 percent
Percent of which was awarded directly to Haitian organizations or companies: 2.3 percent
Total amount of contracts awarded to the DC-based company Chemonics International: $298.55 million
Total amount of contracts awarded directly to all Haitian firms: $52.95 million
Amount allocated by USAID and the Inter-American Development Bank to support the Caracol Industrial Park, the flagship post-quake project: $350 million
Number of miles from the earthquake epicenter to Caracol: 190
Date on which the industrial park was inaugurated: October 22, 2012
Number of jobs the State Department promised the new industrial park would create: 65,000
Total number of jobs at the industrial park, as of 2017: 10,214
Percent by which garment sector employment has increased countrywide since 2010: 93 percent
Minimum number of residents displaced by the construction of the Caracol Industrial Park: 400
Date on which those 400 residents reached an agreement with the IDB and Haitian government on corrective measures, including access to new land: December 19, 2018
Daily minimum wage in the garment sector: 420 gourdes (less than $6)
Daily minimum wage requested by unions: 1000 gourdes
Percent of garment factories noncompliant with social security and other benefit payments in 2018: 75 percent
Total remittances sent to Haiti in 2018, according to the World Bank: $2.5 billion
Haiti’s rank among countries with the highest remittances as a share of GDP: 5
Minimum number of Haitians who emigrated to Chile in 2017: 105,000
Number of Haitians living in the United States with Temporary Protected Status (TPS): 59,000
Date on which then-candidate Trump proclaimed that he would be Haiti’s “greatest champion”: September 16, 2016
Date on which the US announced it was ending TPS for Haitians: November 20, 2017
Date on which it was reported that President Trump referred to Haiti as a “shithole” country: January 11, 2018
Date on which a trial in New York commenced contesting the US decision to end TPS: January 7, 2019
Ratio of per capita public health funding in Haiti compared to Cuba: 1:60
Percent by which child mortality decreased, between 1990 and 2015: 50 percent
Factor by which Haiti’s child mortality rate remains greater than the Latin America and Caribbean average: 5
Percent of health facilities that charge user fees: 93 percent
Percent of the national budget that went to health in 2004: 16.6
In 2016: 4.4
Percent of national budget that went to the Senate and Chamber of Deputies last year: 5.8 percent
