Haiti Facts

The following statistics indicate the severity of Haiti’s problem:

• The poorest country in the world
• Haiti is the third hungriest country in the world after Somalia and Afghanistan
• The richest 1% of the population controls nearly half of all of Haiti’s wealth
• Haiti ranks 38th out of 195 for under-five mortality rate
• Ranks 146 out of 173 on the United Nations’ Human Development Index
• Adult literacy is about 40%
• Unemployment is 70%
• More than half of Haitians live on less than a dollar a day.
• About 70% of the population lives in abject poverty.
• Less than 20% of Haitians age 15 and over can read and write.
• Fewer than 75% of children attend school.
• The government is not able to provide the resources to educate the nation’s next generation.
• There are few paved roads, an inadequate supply of potable water, minimal utilities, and depleted forests.
• 7% or more Haitian children won’t make it to 5 years old
• Over a million children are HIV infected and or dying of AIDS as you are reading this.