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| Flag Description |
two equal horizontal bands of blue (top) and red with a centered white rectangle bearing the coat of arms, which contains a palm tree flanked by flags and two cannons above a scroll bearing the motto L'UNION FAIT LA FORCE (Union Makes Strength); the colors are taken from the French Tricolor and represent the union of blacks and mulattoes
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| Haiti |
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Infant mortality rate: |
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total: 59.69 deaths/1,000 live births
country comparison to the world: 37
male: 66.18 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 53.01 deaths/1,000 live births (2009 est.)
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Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the developing world. About 80 percent of the rural Haitian population lives in poverty and the situation has deteriorated over the past decade.
The staggering level of poverty in Haiti is associated with many other issues. Life expectancy is only 57. Less than half of the population is literate. Health conditions are poor; vaccination coverage for children, for example, is only about 25 percent. Only about one-fourth of the population has access to safe water. Haiti's population continues to grow at a high rate estimated at almost 200,000 people per year.
The recent 7.0 magnitude earthqauke that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010 is the worst natural disaster to strike the western hemisphere in known history.
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