Hurricane Stan
Last reviewed: 23-03-2007
Tragedy reveals shocking wealth gap
Key facts
| Number killed | 1,513 (Emergency Disasters Data Base, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) |
| Number affected | 475,314 (Emergency Disasters Data Base) |
| Families made homeless by Stan | 9,000 (U.N. World Food Programme, WFP) |
| People in need of food aid | 337,000 (WFP) |
| Economic losses | $988 million, almost 3.6 percent of Guatemala's 2004 GDP (Emergency Disasters Data Base) |
| Guatemala's total population | 12.9 million (U.N. Department of Economic and Social Affairs, 2006) |
| Percentage of Guatemalans living in rural areas | 51 (U.N. Development Report 2006 |
| Officially recognised languages | 23, of which 21 are spoken by descendents of the ancient Maya. The other two are Garifuna - spoken by black indigenous people on the Atlantic coast - and Xinca, which has few surviving speakers in the country's arid southeast. |
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