Pre-Post Statistics About Haiti

Some interesting statistics about Haiti before and after the Jan. 12th earthquake.

OCHA, which is the UN agency over all Humanitarian Aid, just came out with their periodic update on what's going on in Haiti. You can access it here:

http://reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/VVOS-85RPLG?OpenDocument&rc=2

· 9 to 10 million = Haiti Population in Haiti before Jan 12 quake.

· 8.5 to 9.5 million = Haiti Population in Haiti after the earthquake main deaths

· 3 million = Haitians in Port au Prince (capital) before Jan 12 quake

· 3-5 million Haitians Diaspora in other nations, such as USA, Canada, other Americas, France, rest of Europe.

· 2 million Haitians Diaspora in USA, 60% born in USA (US citizens under 14thamendment to constitution).

· 80% of college educated Haitians live outside of Haiti.

· 2-4 million Haitians affected one way or another by the quake, in person (not counting Diaspora etc. who seek to provide aid).

· 200-300 thousand Haitians dead in instant of quake, with buildings falling down, etc.

· 200-300 thousand additional Haitians died soon after the quake, due to inadequate international aid effort … did not get to buried (but still alive) people fast enough, did not get them adequate medical attention, did not respond to SOS like Ushahidi, or they were not able to contact Ushahidi, were very slow getting to places devastated worse than Port au Prince

· 300 thousand Haitians injured in quake (but rescued)

· 1-3 million Haitians displaced by quake

· 1-2.5 million Haitians into over 1,300 spontaneous refugee camps (these #s widely change rapidly)

o 206 camps have camp management agencies, as of May-3, which represents 37% of the population being tracked in the camps, or 62% of large sites of 1,000 families or more.

o 90,000 families, in the 70 largest sites, have now been registered (registration for purposes of relief aid … I don’t think elections yet)

o 1,500 unaccompanied children (separated from their families) have been registered. 175 of them were reunited with their families.

· 500-750 thousand Haitians left Port au Prince to rural Haiti

· 200 thousand Haitians crossed border into Dominican Republic

· 20-30 thousand Haitians evicted from emergency housing, without notice, often middle of night.

· 19-20 prisoners killed, 40 wounded, when crisis at Haiti jail, immediately after quake, in the town of Les Cayes, outside the main quake zone. This is independently of the mass breakout of prison in Port au Prince.

· 100 thousand homes destroyed

· 200 thousand homes damaged

· 67 thousand homes so far assessed by qualified engineers (UN & Goh)

o 42% green; 31% yellow; 27% red

o 50% green houses are now occupied

o Green means safe to go back to (based on prior disasters, not relative to future risks)

o Yellow means they need some repair first

o Red means not safe, not repairable, need to be demolished

· UN & NGOs have done a good job of delivering tents & tarps to the camps. This protects against sun, but poor job rainy season, hurricane season, rape epidemic, surprise evictions. They got done with this AFTER rainy season started.

· Approx 469 Transitional Shelters have now been built, which can accommodate 2,345 people. “Why not a better job?” is an exercise in mass finger pointing. These shelters do much better job with protection from rain. Some, by no means all, provide decent rape protection. All claims are “trust us” variety, no standards cited like we find here:

o http://www.unesco-ipred.org/gtfbc/

· 85% of schools (4,578) in affected areas have been destroyed or damaged

o 75% of Leogane primary schools have reopened

o 100% of Petit/Grand Goave primary schools have reopened

o 90-100% of secondary schools have re-opened, in the communities reporting such data

o Most Haiti schools are private, affordable only to families with jobs or otherwise lots of money, which now is under 10% of the total population, so enrolment is 50% below pre-quake figures.

o Efforts, to provide free education to homeless children in the camps, are being resisted by the powers that be, since this is perceived as counter-productive to the private schools economy.

· 57% of FTS flash appeal (of Feb 2010) now funded … another flash appeal is imminent (June 7).

· 20-30% money pledged by Donor nations thru UN actually gets delivered by those nations

· 80-90% money pledged by ordinary people to NGOs actually gets delivered by those people

· 70% camp dwellers have access to showers, as of 4 months after the quake, but the showers are not safe from rapists waiting in ambush for women.

· 80% below poverty line before the quake

· 90% unemployment in Haiti

· One toilet for every 190 people, on average, as of end of April. Just think about that next time you need to use one … how many minutes of day do you need, and how long can you hold it? My math = in 24 hour period, each person has 7 minutes for their business. This is the AVERAGE ... in some camps the figure is one toilet for like 500 people.

Some amazing facts.
Due to funds running out: most Haiti hospitals closed in May; Water delivery by truck to camps ended in April. There were only 12 mental health doctors for all of Haiti, then some had to go out of business when ran out of funds.

· Number people, per arable land area, Haiti more dense than India.

· Haiti is more mountainous than Switzerland.

· In 1923, over 60% of Haiti's land was forested; by 2006, less than 2% was.

· Two fault lines thru that island, aftershocks expected for YEARS near where Jan 12 quake occurred, and other places on THAT fault line, then a LARGER intensity quake on the northern fault line, probably in NE Dominican Republic.