Poverty rate in 2012: 58.5%
Poverty rate in rural areas in 2012: 74.9%
Extreme poverty in rural Haiti in 2000: 38%
Extreme poverty in rural Haiti in 2012: 38%
Percent of income held by the richest 20%: 64
Percent of income held by the poorest 20%: Less than 1
Proportion of children under five years suffering from chronic malnutrition, 2006: 29
Proportion of children under five years of age with stunting, 2012: 22
Number of hospitals, out of 48 total, which were put out of service by the earthquake: 37
Percent of Haitian workers who have a job yet earn less than the minimum wage: 60
Percent less that women earn as compared to men: 32
Number of people still living in tent camps, as of September 2014: 85,432
Percent decrease from its peak: 93.7
Share of this decrease that return programs (rental subsidy & other programs) were responsible for: 16.7%
Percent of remaining IDPs that are “not targeted” for return programs: 81.5
Number of individuals living in informal settlements on outskirts of Port-au-Prince, not counted in official displaced population, according to Haitian government: 300,00
Number of new homes built by international reconstruction efforts, as of October 2014: 9,032
Months that partial legislative and local elections have been delayed: 39
Number of “municipal agents” named by the President to replace elected mayors whose terms expired in 2012: 130
Share of Senate seats currently empty due to lack of elections: 1/3
Number of members of the 99-seat Chamber of Deputies whose terms expire on January 12, 2015: 99 (all)
Number of people killed in the earthquake in 2010: over217,300
Minimum number of Haitians killed by the UN-caused cholera epidemic: 8,774
Number of years it took after the introduction of cholera for the international community to hold a donor conference to raise funds for the cholera response: 4
Number of years it would take to fully fund the cholera-elimination plan at current disbursement rate: 40
Number of new cholera cases in 2014, through August: 9,700
Projected number of cholera cases for all of 2014, after the United Nations reduced their estimate in September 2014: 15,000
Number of members of the U.S. Congress who wrote to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon this December urging the U.N. to respond justly to cholera claims: 77
Minimum number of sexual abuse allegations against the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, MINUSTAH, since 2007: 94
Percent of total U.N. peacekeeping troops worldwide, stationed in Haiti: 7.2%
Share of total worldwide sexual abuse allegations against peacekeepers that MINUSTAH has accounted for over the last 2 years: 1in4
Dollar amount of textile exports to the United States in fiscal year 2012/13: $387.7million
Percentage points of GDP growth these exports accounted for in that year: 0.32
Percent of textile exports to the United States made with local goods: 0.6
Minimum amount committed by the Inter-American Development Bank and United States to the Caracol Industrial Park and related infrastructure: $482.9 million
Total amount of budget support to the Haitian government since the earthquake: $340.2 million
Number of jobs at the Caracol industrial park as of September 2014: 4,156
Estimated number of jobs that will be created, according to the U.S. State Department: 65,000
Estimated amount of tax revenue collected from Caracol’s largest tenant over first 15 years of operations: $0
Total amount committed by international donors and NGOs since 2010, according to the Haitian government: $7.1
Amount disbursed: $5.7
Total amount awarded in contracts and grants by USAID: $1.5 billion
Percent that went directly to Haitian organizations: 1%
Percent that went to firms located inside the beltway (DC, Maryland and Virginia): 56%
USAID’s goal for local procurement in Haiti: 17%
Amount earmarked for local procurement in the coming year: $5.5million
Percent of total USAID expenditures earmarked for local procurement in 2015: 2.25
Total amount awarded to Chemonics International, a for-profit development company, since the earthquake: $216 million
Originally published on the Haiti Relief and Reconstruction Watch blog on the site of www.cepr.net
