haiti project

By: Beth Richardson

&

Ashley Best

Population

• The current population of Haiti is about 8,300,000 people.

• The population density is about 292.7 people per square km.

• Their abject poverty rate is 80%, they have almost 90% unemployment rate, and 50% are illiterate.

• Their country covers 27,560 square kilometers.

Income• Half of their population only

makes $60 a year.

• The legal minimum wage is 70 gourdes, which is congruent to $1.70 in the US, per day applies to most workers in the formal sectors.

• More than half the Haitians live on less than a dollar a day.

• GDP per capita $1,800 (est. 2006)

Health Care• 90% of the HIV/AIDS cases in the

Caribbean belong to Haiti.• 300,000 cases of HIV/AIDS deaths

were identified leaving 163,000 orphans.

• Tuberculosis is the leading cause of adult mortality in Haiti, and they have the highest rates of TB in their hemisphere.

• 12% of children die before their first birthday.

• 1/3 of their children die before they reach the age of 5.

• Only one in every 10,000 Haitians have access to a physician.

• They spend $54 a year compared to $4,499 in the US and $483 in Mexico on healthcare.

Places to Live• 75% of the population lives

in a rural area.

• 25% of the population lives in an urban area.

• 20% of their land is arable but about 20% of their people live on that section of land.

% Industrial vs. % Agricultural

• 37.5% of Haiti is Agricultural.

• 28% Industry

• 34.5% service

Statistics

• Male life expectancy is 55 years old.

• Female life expectancy about 59 years old.

• Birth rate is about 36 births per 1,000 people.

• Death rate is about 10 deaths per 1,000 people.

• Infant mortality rate is 74 babies per 1,000.

Causes of Overpopulation in Haiti

• They would prefer to have boys over girls so they continue to have children until they conceive males.

• A lack of education could also be a cause.

• Their religion sometimes keeps them from using birth control and other factors of their religion come into play.

• In some cases they have more than one partner and that would also cause a rise in their population

Consequences of Overpopulation

• Lack of healthcare.• Shortage of food/nutrients.

(starvation)• Poor living conditions.• Contaminated water.• Spread of diseases such as

HIV/AIDS.• Poverty because of the

shortage in their employment.

• There are more people to cause pollution.

• There would also be a higher death rate due to the reasons stated above.

• Depleted forests

Possible Solutions for Overpopulation

• Sexual Education could help the problem of overpopulation.

• Industrialization would also help the problem.

• Make contraceptives more available to the people.

• Government could put a legal limit on the number of children that the citizens are permitted to have. (such as in China)

• Haiti should educate their women in the same way they educate their males so women are capable of doing the tasks that are given to the males.

Current Events in Haiti

• http://www.miamiherald.com/1379/story/503497.html

• http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/VDUX-7K8R9G?OpenDocument

• http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/gables_smiami/story/717280.html

My Most Used Sites

• http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/haiti/intro.htm

• http://globaledge.msu.edu/countryinsights/statistics.asp?countryID=131&regionID=4