Significantly fewer people died or were left homeless by last year's earthquake in Haiti than claimed by the country's leaders, a draft report commissioned by the US government has said.
From the BBC
31 May 2011 Last updated at 11:04 ET
The unpublished report puts the death toll between 46,000 and 85,000. Haiti's government says about 316,000 died.
It also suggests many of those still living in tent cities did not lose their homes in the disaster.
Haitian authorities have stood by the figures released last year.
The draft report, which has yet to be released publicly, is based on a survey commissioned by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and draws its numbers from door-to-door surveys carried out over 29 days in January 2011.
But US State Department spokeswoman Preeti Shah told the Associated Press News Agency the report had inconsistencies and would not be released until they were resolved.
Analysts say the new figures could challenge the premise of a multi-billion-dollar aid and reconstruction effort.
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