ACOG - Haiti  - IBM

Geography

Location: Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic

Area:
total area: 27,750 sq km
land area: 27,560 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland

Land boundaries: total 275 km, Dominican Republic 275 km

Coastline: 1,771 km


People

Population: 6,539,983 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 46% (female 1,490,939; male 1,535,607)
15-64 years: 50% (female 1,692,032; male 1,557,568)
65 years and over: 4% (female 133,291; male 130,546)

Population growth rate: 1.5% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 38.64 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 18.65 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -4.99 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 107.5 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 44.77 years
male: 43.04 years
female: 46.59 years

Total fertility rate: 5.82 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: black 95%, mulatto and European 5%

Religions: Roman Catholic 80% (of which an overwhelming majority also practice Voodoo), Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%, other 1%), none 1%, other 3% (1982)

Languages: French (official) 10%, Creole

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1982)
total population: 35%
male: 37%
female: 32%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Haiti
conventional short form: Haiti

Type: republic

Capital: Port-au-Prince

Independence: 1 January 1804 (from France)

Constitution: approved March 1987, suspended June 1988, most articles reinstatedMarch 1989; October 1991, government claims to be observing the Constitution


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $5.6 billion

National product real growth rate: -15%

National product per capita: $870

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 52%

Unemployment rate: 50%

Electricity:
capacity: 150,000 kW
production: 590 million kWh
consumption per capita: 86 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.