The Sad Disparity Between the Money the Philippines Needs, and What It Got

In the wake of the unimaginably destructive Super Typhoon Haiyan in early November, the world promised a lot to help rebuild the Philippines. (Most of the world, anyway.) But how much of that foreign aid has made it to the disaster zone, where it's desperately needed to provide food, shelter, and other necessities to 4.1 million displaced people?

Not a heck of a lot, to believe this gloomy new visualization from Chris Walker, a data-obsessed dude living in Mumbai. (You might recall his map of American migration patterns.) Walker has taken the cash aid pledged by foreign countries and lined it up against what the Philippines has received in the wake of the strongest landfall-making storm in known history, which killed 5,670 and injured more than 26,000. Then he compared those figures to the staggeringly larger amount of economic damage the typhoon dealt to crops, livestock, irrigation facilities, and other parts of infrastructure. Here's how the breakdown looked on December 2: