Haiti
population: Natl annual projection (1 Jul 2024) · indicators as of 5 Sep 2026 · 3 metros tracked
🏙️ 3 tracked metros
🗂️ Departments
10 entries listed under Haiti. Select any to see its metros and footprint.
📋 At a glance
- Official languages
- French, Haitian Creole
- Currency
- Gourde (HTG)
- Legislature
- Parliament of Haiti
- Constitution
- 1987, 1 amendment event since
- Demonym
- Haitian
- Time zone
- UTC-05:00
- Driving side
- Right
- Calling code
- +509
- Internet TLD
- .ht
- ISO 3166
- HT
- Established
- 1804
- Highest point
- Peak la Selle (2,674 m (8,773 ft))
- National anthem
- La Dessalinienne
Facts via Wikidata.
🗣️ Languages of Haiti
Haitian first; 2 languages share the country; 2 official.
Shares count first and second language, so they overlap and can add past 100%.
- Effective languages
- 1.2
- Official-language gap
- 19%
- Haitian is spoken by 81%
📰 In the news3 stories
The Washington Post · 1 Aug 2026
"Mass layoffs hit Haitian workers as protected status ends"Over a million migrants, mostly Haitian, lost temporary protected status, with mass layoffs following at airports, nursing homes and schools.
The Washington Post · 27 Jun 2026
Nursing homes, factories brace for SCOTUS falloutEnding TPS clears a path to deport 350,000 Haitians and about 6,100 Syrians, leaving nursing homes and factories bracing for a labor shock.
Semafor · 26 Jun 2026
SCOTUS hands Trump four winsThe Court delivered four wins in one sitting, ending TPS for Haitians and Syrians, letting the border turn away asylum seekers, and blocking Roundup cancer suits.
💹 Economy and developmentLower middle income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
Alliances & Organisations3 full memberships
Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer
🏛️ Leadership History48 leaders · click to expand
is an editorial flag: associated with atrocities against civilians, systemic subversion of the constitutional order, or a criminal conviction (political persecutions and annulled convictions excluded). It is a curated list, not a measurement, so a name without one has not been cleared of anything. Hover a badge for the reason on file. marks a monarch.
Other
Republic of Haiti
military junta
military
US occupation
Empire of Haiti
Kingdom (north)
Republic (south)
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
The power line is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
⚔️ Wars and conflicts6 interstate wars · click to expand
| Conflict | Years | Against | Combat deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States occupation of Haiti | 1915–1934 | United States | — |
| Dominican War of Independence | 1844–1856 | Dominican Republic | — |
| Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo | 1822–1844 | Haiti | — |
| Haitian invasion of Santo Domingo | 1805 | France,Spain Spain | — |
| Fourth quarter of the Haitian Revolution | 1802–1804 | France | — |
| Haitian Revolution | 1791–1804 | France,Polish Legions | — |
Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Haiti: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
🏆 National Teams
Haiti on the international stage. Select a card for the full record.
National Teams Champions
Every major championship won by Haiti's national teams, newest first. 1 in total.
| Year | Date | Champion | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 1973-12-18 | Haiti | CONCACAF Championship |