Summary of Haiti's balance of payments, annual basis, FY1991 to FY2025 (updated 28 May 2026)
- The current account is in surplus for a second year: US$374.8 million in FY2024 and US$453.4 million in FY2025.
- Workers' remittances reached US$4,912.5 million in FY2025, up from US$4,173.8 million, and are what carries the external accounts.
- The merchandise trade deficit widened to US$3,614.2 million as exports fell to US$766.2 million and imports rose to US$4,380.4 million.
- The overall balance of US$717.9 million was matched by an accumulation of reserve assets of US$714.1 million.
- This edition revises every fiscal year from 2020: FY2024's current account moves from a deficit of US$145.1 million to a surplus of US$374.8 million, so figures taken from an earlier vintage no longer hold.
- Net errors and omissions of US$210.4 million in FY2025 are large relative to the surplus they sit beside.
This is the reference table for Haiti's external accounts: "Résumé de la balance des paiements d'Haïti", base annuelle, published by the BRH on its "Balance des paiements et commerce extérieur" statistics page and carried in the statistical annex of its Annual Report. One landscape page holds 45 lines against 35 fiscal-year columns, from FY1991 to FY2025, in millions of current US dollars. The presentation follows the IMF's BPM6 framework: the current account (goods, services, primary income and secondary income, each with its credit and debit legs), the capital account, the financial account (direct investment and other investment, split between the general government, the banking sector and the non-bank sector), net errors and omissions, and the overall balance, financed by the line covering reserve assets, IMF credit, arrears, SDR allocations, debt relief and rescheduling. Credits are positive and debits negative; BRH fiscal years run from October to September and are keyed to the closing year, so FY2025 is October 2024 to September 2025.
The FY2025 outturn is a current-account surplus of US$453.4 million, the second in a row. It rests on remittances of US$4,912.5 million, up from US$4,173.8 million a year earlier, against a merchandise trade deficit of US$3,614.2 million, itself the product of exports falling to US$766.2 million while imports rose to US$4,380.4 million. Services remain in deficit at US$477.8 million and foreign direct investment is US$57.6 million. Net errors and omissions, at US$210.4 million, are large enough to be read as a caveat on the rest. The overall balance of US$717.9 million was matched by an accumulation of reserve assets of US$714.1 million.
This edition, dated 28 May 2026, revises every fiscal year from 2020, and the revisions change the story rather than the decimals: FY2024's current account moves from a deficit of US$145.1 million to a surplus of US$374.8 million, FY2023's deficit narrows from US$682.6 million to US$188.8 million, and FY2020 goes from US$74.1 million to US$260.1 million. Anything computed from an earlier vintage of this table needs recomputing. The three most recent years are marked provisional.
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Banque de la République d'Haïti (BRH), Summary of Haiti's balance of payments, annual basis, FY1991 to FY2025 (updated 28 May 2026), https://www.brh.ht/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/bdpannuelle.pdf