Haiti, one of the highest population densities in the world

According to the Haitian government, the devastating earthquake that had hit Haiti in 2010, claimed 230,000 lives, which was 3 times the total deaths that occurred in Haiti a year before. The population density value for Haiti in 2011 was 367.34 in 2011. Population density represents the number of people that live in one square kilometer of land area. This was the highest population density that was ever registered in Haiti in last 50 years.

The cause for this population density is the sudden spike in the birth rate that occurred after the 2010 earthquake. It was found that the birth rate in Haiti increased by 3 times after the earthquake as compared to the birth rate that prevailed before the earthquake. As a result of this, hospital maternity wards and other temporary facilities were flooded and the workers were overwhelmed. This is a normal phenomenon and a common human characteristic and it has been historically found in every culture that after any serious crisis, birth rate increases significantly. Haiti was not an exception and the massive surge in the birth rate eventually led to the highest population density in last 50 years.

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