Working poverty rate rose to 43.1% in 2025, from 42.1% in 2024.

The share of employed Haitians who are nonetheless poor, 2000 to 2025, by sex and by three age bands. Sustainable Development Goal indicator 1.1.1 applied to people in work. This answers what an unemployment rate cannot. Where almost all work is informal, having a job and being poor are not alternatives, so a low unemployment rate and widespread poverty coexist without contradiction.

Latest value: 43.1% (2025)

Coverage: 2000–2025 · Frequency: annual · 26 observations

Source: ILOSTAT (Labor Statistics)

Recent observations

Period	Value — % of employed
2000	39.4%
2001	39.3%
2002	39.0%
2003	38.6%
2004	38.4%
2005	38.0%
2006	37.5%
2007	36.8%
2008	36.3%
2009	35.9%
2010	37.1%
2011	36.4%
2012	36.4%
2013	35.9%
2014	35.4%
2015	35.4%
2016	35.2%
2017	34.7%
2018	34.8%
2019	36.2%
2020	37.7%
2021	38.5%
2022	39.5%
2023	40.4%
2024	42.1%
2025	43.1%

Sector: ZM

Available breakdowns: classif1 (3) · sex (3)

Methodology

Coverage Labour statistics for Haiti from the International Labour Organization's ILOSTAT database, at ilostat.ilo.org. Haiti's figures come in two kinds, which are kept on separate lines. Definitions Survey figures are the national surveys actually conducted: the 2003 population census, the 2007 Labour Force and Informal Economy Survey, and the 2012 Household Living Conditions Survey.