The Economic Accounts in 2025

The Haitian Institute of Statistics and Informatics' annual analysis of the national accounts for fiscal year 2025, issued by the Directorate of Economic Statistics in December 2025 and running to 28 pages.

GDP at constant prices fell 2.7 percent in 2025, against 4.2 percent in 2024. That is the seventh consecutive year of contraction, an unbroken run averaging 2.4 percent a year and amounting to a cumulative loss of more than 106 billion constant gourdes, or over 16 percent of GDP across the period. The institute sets that beside the food-security count: people in acute food insecurity rose from 2.3 million in December 2018 to more than 5.7 million in September 2025, an additional 3.4 million over the years of recession.

The sectoral chapters follow the ISIC classification. Agriculture declined again but remains a pillar at 14.4 percent of GDP. The secondary sector, covering manufacturing, construction, electricity and water, contracted 5.1 percent after 5.0 percent the previous year, with textiles, clothing and leather down 8 percent against 6.9 percent. Construction fell 6.4 percent to 20.7 billion constant gourdes of value added, after 7.5 percent in 2024. Extractive industries, commerce, transport and hospitality all fell; information and communication, financial activities and non-market services grew.

The institute attributes the contraction less to the chronic structural constraints than to the security crisis: the ransoming of transporters on strategic routes, the blocking of national roads, the paralysis of the main Port-au-Prince markets, and the logistical shock of the suspension of international passenger flights to Toussaint Louverture airport since November 2024.