Thomas Piketty: 'France owes EUR30 billion to Haiti and should start restitution talks' / Haiti: Displaced families grapple with death 'from the inside' and out / Protesters in Haiti demand new government and more security as anger over gangs spreads / US designates two powerful Haitian gangs as terrorist groups

Haiti

Updated: 128d ago

ShareCopied to clipboard

Haiti is a country. The capital city is Port-au-Prince, located in the Caribbean region of Americas. It has a land area of 27,560 km², a population of 11,637,398 people and uses the currency Haitian gourde. The President is Jovenel Moïse.

Key facts

currency: Haitian gourde
capital city: Port-au-Prince
region: Caribbean
continent: Americas
land area: 27,560 km²
population: 11,637,398 people
political leader: Jovenel Moïse (President)

See more facts

GDP: 19,850,829,757.54 current US$
inflation: 36.81 annual %
self-employed workers: 75.44 % of total employment
unemployment: 14.56 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 74.72 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 1,000 people
democracy score: 4.91
democracy type: Hybrid regime
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 311,000 people
individuals using the Internet: 39.30 % of population
military expenditure: 0.05 % of GDP
net migration: -31,786 people
press freedom: 2.70
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 2.54 %
birth rate: 23.15 per 1,000 people
death rate: 8.48 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 57.88 current US$
health expenditure: 3.48 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.58 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 4.77 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 64
suicide mortality rate: 9.60 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 17,950.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 0.07 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 3.54 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 49.30 % of population
electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from natural gas sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 8.00 % of total
electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
electricity production from oil sources: 92.00 % of total
electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 0.00 % of total
net energy imports: 22.02 % of energy use
fertility rate: 2.77 births per woman
forest area: 3,410 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 22.02 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 13.66 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 19.50
methane emissions: 8.79 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 1.41 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 5,875,810 people
male population: 5,761,588 people
renewable energy consumption: 76.70 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 25,688.07 km²
rural population: 4,694,992 people
urban land area: 1,326.10 km²
urban population: 6,942,406 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 2.94 % of total population

Make this Notebook Trusted to load map: File -> Trust Notebook

Location on a map: 19°0′N, -72°41′W

- Explore more images

Extract data

Download datasets about Haiti:

Dataset of companies in Haiti

Dataset of sites in Haiti

Dataset of artists from Haiti

Dataset of athletes from Haiti

Dataset of cities in Haiti

Dataset of competitions in Haiti

Dataset of diseases in Haiti

Dataset of exchanges in Haiti

Dataset of museums in Haiti

Dataset of political parties in Haiti

Dataset of politicians from Haiti

Dataset of universities in Haiti

Dataset of wildfires in Haiti

Haiti is one of the countries in Americas, countries in Caribbean and 194 countries in our database.

Visualize data

Get charts or maps on Haiti:

Distribution of artists from Haiti by birth year

Distribution of athletes from Haiti by birth date

Distribution of sites in Haiti by inscription year

Distribution of companies in Haiti by foundation year

Evolution of historical electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, in Haiti with forecast

Evolution of historical health expenditure per capita in Haiti with forecast

Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in Haiti with forecast

Evolution of historical proportion of self-employed workers in Haiti with forecast

Map of the distribution of sites in Haiti by area

Map of the distribution of wildfires in Haiti by mean width

Map of the distribution of museums in Haiti by visitors

Map of the distribution of cities in Haiti by population

Share of company types in Haiti

Share of transboundary sites in Haiti

Share of medals won by Haiti in the Olympics

Share of athletes per gender in Haiti

Correlation of access to electricity and life expectancy at birth by countries yearly in Haiti

Correlation of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions of countries yearly in Haiti

Correlation of access to electricity and fertility rate by countries yearly in Haiti

Correlation of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) and urban population by countries yearly in Haiti

In literature

There are 276 books written about Haiti in the database.

This dashboard is based on data from: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders.

This content is available under the CC BY 4.0 license.