Comments on: Haiti Earthquake: Who’s given what?

By: Tapan Jain

Tapan Jain — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:03:05 +0000

Amazing Stuff man!….I love the way you make sense out of the data. Great visualizations!

By: Calgary web design

Calgary web design — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:24:37 +0000

Interesting how canada may trail the US in terms of most cash, but then suddenly drop so badly when it comes to $ donated per person. Either way, way to go Canada!

By: ELIZABETH

ELIZABETH — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:11:33 +0000

Jamaica was the first country to respond both in cash and kind…where is this data and the comparitor regarding giving and population size???

By: Calgary Web Design

Calgary Web Design — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:10:08 +0000

Well the country is represented by its government. If the government is generous, then we can consider that people are generous as well.

It’s a leader and follower principle.

If the leaders can’t give much, guess what will be the level of the generosity of its followers…

By: Calgary web design

Calgary web design — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:28:47 +0000

Happy to see that Canada was in the top leagues here — and at $3.89 the highest per person amount to boot! Great way of visualizing the data, thanks!

By: PatHMV

PatHMV — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:59:21 +0000

As others have noted, the country-by-country figures show only the government-provided aid. It does NOT include aid given privately by individuals and groups from each country. It is exceedingly misleading to label this “most giving” countries, because it does not reflect the total amount of aid being given by all the people of that country… only the aid that flows through their central government first.

By: Venezuelan

Venezuelan — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:09:20 +0000

I really like the concept behind of the power of visualizing data to “beautify” if. The thing is that here applies the GIGO concept: Garbage In – Garbage Out.

The monopoly of “generosity” is a highly politized idea which sometimes serves as a conscience reliever and self-gratifier, and sometimes as proof to defend moral high-grounds.

The source of your data data, for example, didn’t even mention Venezuela’s aid to Haiti, a poor country compared to the standards of Canada, the Netherlands and the US and yet, by the date this post was published, one that had already forgiven 295 MM USD debt with Petrocaribe:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-van-gelder/cancel-haitis-debt_b_438854.html

You would have to add to that millions of USD in additional help though Unasur, hundreds of tons of food, relief workers on the ground, etc. But hey… what would that say about the character of a “banana republic”, its people and its “strong-man” leader.

By: MatTrue

MatTrue — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:33:10 +0000

Uhhh, I think you need to update your charts. The U.S. has given way more than that.

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/fts.nsf/doc105?OpenForm&rc=2&emid=EQ-2010-000009-HTI

As of March 2, in USD:

Private (individuals & organisations) 822,257,928

United States 685,631,876

Canada 81,331,088

Allocation of funds from Red Cross / Red Crescent 76,780,196

Saudi Arabia 50,000,000

Allocations of unearmarked funds by UN agencies 39,675,076

France 35,746,117

Spain 34,516,159

United Kingdom 33,007,214

European Commission (ECHO) 26,353,261

Japan 25,327,154

Norway 25,230,493

Sweden 22,448,322

….

Using data less than two weeks after an event to say something meaningful is pointless.

By: Laurie Mitchell

Laurie Mitchell — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:20:35 +0000

Great graph!

FYI, the earthquake in Haiti was 2010 not 2009 like it states under the International Total section. Unless Haiti suffered a previous earthquake I was not aware of…

By: Carlos VÃ¡zquez

Carlos VÃ¡zquez — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:24:27 +0000

I feel proud of Spain and Spanish!