[Talk-ht] Missing Millions in haiti ???

[Vincent Auvigne]

I’m not demographic specialist but I will try a little comment. The view of
the author of this post is interesting because sometimes simple calculations
allow to point critical point better than very long studies.

 

Nevertheless, I think that he miss completely the reality of Haiti when  he
writes “in rural areas [there is] very few fields or roads or traces of
humanity? Haiti is a country with an incredibly high population density in
rural areas, even in the mountains. It’s one of the reason of the
deforestation. There is no place where you can walk more than a couple of
minutes without seeing anybody. This should be taken into account in the
calculation.

 

Vincent

 

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[mailto:talk-ht-bounces at openstreetmap.org] De la part de ce-test, qualified
testing bv - Gert Gremmen
Envoyé : lundi 8 février 2010 12:59
À : OSM-Haiti
Objet : [Talk-ht] Missing Millions in haiti ???

 

I  found this at :

 

http://www.pool.org.au/text/peter_ravenscroft/the_elephant_that_is_not_in_th
e_room

 

and thought this to be interesting.

Any comment from demographic specialists????

Nine million people in Haiti? Pull the other leg, it has a goat tied to it. 

http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%C3%AFti

About a million people are not getting food and water, by Red Cross
estimates, of the 3 million in the Port au Prince and nearby
quake-devastated region.

But the question is, where are the other 6 million Haitians? 

They appear to have not one radio station between them, and from Google
Earth, there are clearly no other large towns. And, there are very few
fields along the rivers. or anywhere. I may have this badly wrong, but it
seems possible this is the elephant that is not in the room. Maybe there are
2 million more people, in small cities and towns and in the rural areas. But
something like 4 million people seem to be missing. Not since the
earthquake. Before it. Maybe they live in Atlantis and have no email or
radios. Or relatives in the city. 

.

 

 

Gert Gremmen

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