APRIL 2023
Number of Haitians dying daily due to hunger: 562
- Yearly food inflation rate: 53%
- Families in Cite Soleil that gave up children in servitude to meet food needs: 9%
- Yearly kidnappings in Haiti (pop: 11.5 million):857
- Yearly kidnappings in Mexico (pop: 130 million):650
- Percentage of Port-au-Prince under government control: 10%
- Individual armed groups operating in Haiti: 200
- Haitians that state they would support an international force to fight gangs: 70%
- Haitians who think the Haitian National Police alone can combat gangs: 0%
- Haiti National Police officers: 9,000
- New York City (pop: 8.9 million) Police Department officers: 36,000
- Haiti Police officers killed in the first three months of 2023: 78
- USA (pop: 334 million) police officers killed in the first three months of 2023: 12
- Portion of Haitian police officers applying to emigrate from Haiti: 1/3
- Haitian prisoners who died of starvation in 2022: 54
- Average daily caloric intake for Haitian prisoner: 571
- Fleeing Haitians on boats rescued by US coast guard per day: 21
- Healthcare facilities reporting staff shortages: 85%
- Healthcare facilities reporting difficulty maintaining key supplies: 100%
- Doctors Without Borders Hospitals shuttered due to violence: 3
- Patients served by Hospital Albert Schweitzer, now closed due to violence: 700,000
- Doctors kidnapped since beginning of 2022: 30
- Number of elected officials in Haiti: 0