Haiti health facts

The Kaiser Family Foundation has a fact sheet for Haiti where you can view summary population characteristics, key health indicators, and levels and types of development financing at a glance. You can easily compare statistics from Haiti to data at the global level or from other specific countries.

A few telling statistics:

• Even before the earthquake hit, only 58% of Haitians had access to clean water and less than 20% had access to sanitation.
• More than half of the population was undernourished; similarly, over half the population was living on less than $1 per day.
• In 2008, Haiti received approximately $80 million from in US Food Assistance funding.
• In 2007, 120,000 Haitians were living with HIV/AIDS, comprising 2.2% of the entire population.
  
• TB incidence rates are over 300 per 100,000 population, giving Haiti the highest per capita rate in Latin America and the Caribbean.
  

What statistics have you found about Haiti that surprised, confused, or inspired you? Share them in the comments section.