Haiti: Facts and figures

Haiti before the earthquake

Impact of the 12 January earthquake

• Two million people were living in the most affected area
• 220,000 died in the immediate aftermath
• Over 180,000 homes were damaged or destroyed
• 1.5m were left homeless
• There were 19 million cubic metres of rubble and debris in Port-au-Prince – enough to fill a line of shipping containers stretching end-to-end from London to Beirut
• One and a half million people were left living in camps, including over 100,000 at critical risk from storms and flooding
• Over 1,100 camps were set up and 54 of these housed 5,000 people or more
• Over 600,000 people left their home area in Port-au-Prince were mostly are staying with host families
• Nearly 5,000 schools were damaged or destroyed