Haiti Stats

19% of children under 5 years of age are underweight;
80 out of 1,000 children die before the age of 5.
Malaria, Tuberculosis, and other major infectious diseases among children are prevalent (the occurrence of tuberculosis in Haiti is more than 10 times higher than the rest of Latin America).
Poverty has forced parents to give away their precious children to be used as “restavecs“ (unpaid household servants) in “upper class” homes. The number of children involves in such cases is estimated to be 225,000 per year.
Half of Haitian children are unvaccinated – only 40% of the population have access to basic health care.
90% of Haitian children have suffered from waterborne disease and intestinal parasites – this is due to running water not readily available to 75%+ households in Haiti.
The enrollment rate for primary school is 67% and fewer than 30% reach 6th grade.
Most Haitians live on $2.00 or less per day.

The life expectancy at birth is 61 years.
The fertility rate is 3.81.
The median age within the general population is 20 years.
80% of the population living below the poverty line.
54% of the population is within abject poverty grade – the literacy rate is 52.9%.
On January 12, 2010, a massive earthquake struck the impoverished nation that claimed the lives of some two hundred thousand individuals and left many more injured. Thousands were displaced - living in camps and makeshifts homes. Unfortunately, the living conditions for many have not improved since.
On October 6, 2016, Haiti was hit by one of the strongest tropical storms – a category 4 landfall since Hurricane Cleo hit Haiti in 1964 - Nine hundred lives were lost and thousands more are now homeless. The damages in the aftermath of hurricane Matthew left people speechless and surely made recovery from the 2010 earthquake a lot more difficult.