Key figures on Haiti

Haiti's consumer price index rose 17.0 percent over the twelve months to August 2026, according to the IHSI.

The BRH reference rate averaged 130.54 gourdes per US dollar in August 2026, according to the BRH.

Haiti's GDP was US$32.1 billion in fiscal year 2025, according to the World Bank.

Haiti received US$4.1 billion in personal remittances in 2024, 16.9 percent of GDP, according to the World Bank.

An estimated 49.0 percent of the population lived below the $3.00 a day poverty line in fiscal year 2025, according to the World Bank.

About 1.47 million people were internally displaced in Haiti in May 2026, according to IOM.

Haiti's population was about 11.9 million people in 2025, according to the World Bank.

Public debt was an estimated 12.3 percent of GDP in fiscal year 2025, according to the IMF.

Some 5.7 million people faced acute food insecurity, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) phase 3 or worse, in the analysis current for September 2025 to February 2026, according to the IPC working group via OCHA.

The official pump price in August 2026 was 700 gourdes per gallon for gasoline, 770 gourdes per gallon for diesel and 765 gourdes per gallon for kerosene, according to the MEF and the MCI.

Access to electricity was 53.9 percent of the population in 2024, according to the World Bank.

Government spending, including the electricity utility EDH, was 207.1 billion gourdes in fiscal year 2024-2025, according to the MEF.

The UN recorded 966 homicide victims in Haiti in January 2026.

The 2012 ECVMAS household survey measured unemployment at 14.1 percent; the ILO's modeled estimate for 2025 is 14.9 percent, according to the ILO.