{"id":917,"date":"2014-10-28T16:29:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2014-10-28T16:29:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T20:29:39","slug":"facts-on-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"Facts on Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Haiti<\/strong><br \/>\nPoverty rate: 77%<br \/>\nPopulation: 10,123,787<br \/>\nGDP: $7.35 billion (66th lowest)<br \/>\nGDP per capita: $726 (22nd lowest)<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank notes that more than half of Haiti\u2019s population lives on less than $1 a day, while about 80% of the country lives on less than $2 a day. The country\u2019s estimated unemployment rate as of 2010 was 40.6%. The impoverished nation is in a state of rebuilding since a devastating earthquake hit the country in 2010. According to a USAID report, the death toll from the earthquake was between 46,000 and 85,000, while the official figure by the Haitian government estimated the death toll at 316,000. The World Bank estimates that damages from earthquake totaled $8 billion, or about 120% of gross domestic product.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: Fox Business News, Sept 14, 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiti Poverty rate: 77% Population: 10,123,787 GDP: $7.35 billion (66th lowest) GDP per capita: $726 (22nd lowest) The World Bank notes that more than half of Haiti\u2019s population lives on less than $1 a day, while about 80% of the country lives on less than $2 a day. The country\u2019s estimated unemployment rate as of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklydecker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}