Approximately three million people—nearly one-third of the country’s total population at the time—were affected by the quake and the subsequent humanitarian disaster. More than one million were left homeless in the immediate aftermath of the January 12, 2010, earthquake—and more than 300,000 people died as a result, according to the Haitian government’s official count.
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