Haiti

North AmericaCapital city: Port-au-PrinceCapital metro: Port-au-PrincePresident: Transitional Presidential CouncilPrime Minister: Alix Didier Fils-Aimé
2026 population
11.9M
Rank #84 globally
Area
28k km² (11k sq mi)
Metros tracked
3
27% of population in metros
Composite score
2.6
Rank #169 globally

population: Natl annual projection (1 Jul 2024) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 3 metros tracked

🏙️ 3 tracked metros
3 metros
🗂️ Departments

10 entries listed under Haiti. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

10 total
📋 At a glance
Official languages
French, Haitian Creole
Currency
Gourde (HTG)
Legislature
Parliament of Haiti
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.

📰 In the news3 stories
Every story in the latest digest →
💹 Economy and developmentLower middle income
Human Dev. Index
#164 / 191
0.554
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#110 / 193
$32.1B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#147 / 193
$2.7k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#174 / 190
$3.1k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#154 / 192
$2.0k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#168 / 194
65.1 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
23.5 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#123 / 194
56%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
1.1%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#19 / 193
422/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#188 / 193
0.2%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#145 / 175
0.17
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#130 / 166
41.1
World Bank · 2012
Internet users
#146 / 193
48%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#177 / 185
28.6%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#19 / 192
0.3 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#124 / 186
19%
Ember · 2024

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

Political & Economic

Regional

Subregional

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History48 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Other

Alix Didier Fils-Aimé✦ Current

2024Present

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 7m 22d

Garry Conille

20242024

Prime Minister

Tenure: 5m 8d

Transitional Presidential Council✦ Current

2024Present

President

Tenure: 2y 2m 8d

Ariel Henry

20212024

President

Tenure: 2y 9m 4d

Ariel Henry

20212024

Prime Minister

Tenure: 2y 9m 4d

Claude Joseph

20212021

Prime Minister

Tenure: 3m 6d

Joseph Jouthe

20202021

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 1m 10d

Jean-Michel Lapin

20192020

Prime Minister

Tenure: 11m 12d

Jean-Henry Céant

20182019

Prime Minister

Tenure: 6m 4d

Jack Guy Lafontant

20172018

Prime Minister

Tenure: 1y 5m 27d

Jovenel Moïse

20172021

President

Tenure: 4y 5m 0d

Jocelerme Privert

20162017

President

Tenure: 11m 24d
Show all 17 leaders

Joseph Michel Martelly

20112016

President

Tenure: 4y 8m 24d

René Préval

20062011

President

Tenure: 5y 0d

Boniface Alexandre

20042006

President

Tenure: 2y 2m 15d

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

20012004

President

Tenure: 3y 22d

René Préval

19962001

President

Tenure: 5y 0d

Republic of Haiti

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

19941996

President

Tenure: 1y 3m 23d

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

19911991

President

Tenure: 7m 23d

⚠️ Jean-Claude Duvalier (Baby Doc)

19711986

President

Tenure: 14y 9m 17d

⚠️ François Duvalier (Papa Doc)

19571971

President

Tenure: 13y 5m 30d

Paul Magloire

19501956

President

Tenure: 6y 6d

Dumarsais Estimé

19461950

President

Tenure: 3y 8m 24d

Élie Lescot

19411946

President

Tenure: 4y 7m 27d

Sténio Vincent

19301941

President

Tenure: 10y 5m 27d

Antoine Simon

19081911

President

Tenure: 2y 7m 16d

Nord Alexis

19021908

President

Tenure: 5y 11m 11d

Tirésias Simon Sam

18961902

President

Tenure: 6y 1m 11d

Florvil Hyppolite

18891896

President

Tenure: 6y 5m 15d
Show all 23 leaders

Lysius Salomon

18791888

President

Tenure: 8y 9m 18d

Boisrond Canal

18761879

President

Tenure: 3y 0d

Michel Domingue

18741876

President

Tenure: 1y 10m 4d

Nissage Saget

18701874

President

Tenure: 4y 1m 24d

Sylvain Salnave

18671869

President

Tenure: 2y 6m 5d

Fabre Geffrard

18591867

President

Tenure: 8y 1m 18d

Jean-Baptiste Riché

18461847

President

Tenure: 11m 26d

Jean-Louis Pierrot

18451846

President

Tenure: 10m 13d

Philippe Guerrier

18441845

President

Tenure: 11m 12d

Charles Rivière-Hérard

18431844

President

Tenure: 4m 3d

Jean-Pierre Boyer

18181843

President

Tenure: 24y 11m 11d

military junta

Raoul Cédras

19911994

Chairman

Tenure: 3y 15d

military

Henri Namphy

19861988

President

Tenure: 2y 0d

US occupation

Louis Borno

19221930

President

Tenure: 8y 0d

Sudre Dartiguenave

19151922

President

Tenure: 7y 2m 20d

Empire of Haiti

👑 Faustin Soulouque (Faustin I)

18471859

Emperor

Tenure: 11y 10m 14d

👑 Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Jacques I)

18041806

Emperor

Tenure: 2y 9m 16d

Kingdom (north)

👑 Henri Christophe (Henri I)

18111820

King

Tenure: 9y 6m 12d

Republic (south)

Alexandre Pétion

18071818

President

Tenure: 11y 20d
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#163 · 0.0%
3%5%8%10%190019502000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Haiti · share of world power, 1859–2026

The powerline 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.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19456 interstate wars · click to expand
Combat deaths:
France,Polish Legions
Combat deaths:

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
11.6m
#82 in the world
Since 1800
23×
from 500k
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.14%
0.05% in 1800
3.0m6.0m9.0m12.0m18001850190019502000
Haiti · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

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.

Peak on the median
2076
15.7m on the UN median
2050
14.7m
95% band 12.8m to 17.1m
2100
15.2m
95% band 8.6m to 27.4m
2100 against 2025
1.27×
median falling from 2077
Deaths outnumber births
from 2081
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
7.2m14.4m21.6m28.7m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
152k born · 89k died · -15k net migration
TFR 6.25 · life expectancy 37.2 · median age 18.8
1960
167k born · 82k died · -16k net migration
TFR 6.18 · life expectancy 43.4 · median age 18.5
1970
189k born · 84k died · -18k net migration
TFR 5.91 · life expectancy 47.3 · median age 18.3
1980
222k born · 91k died · -23k net migration
TFR 5.56 · life expectancy 50.0 · median age 18.2
1990
262k born · 95k died · -26k net migration
TFR 5.41 · life expectancy 53.2 · median age 17.8
2000
267k born · 86k died · -27k net migration
TFR 4.39 · life expectancy 58.2 · median age 18.4
2010
272k born · 176k died · -28k net migration
TFR 3.50 · life expectancy 45.6 · median age 20.3
2020
262k born · 93k died · -34k net migration
TFR 2.80 · life expectancy 63.8 · median age 22.8
Show all 16 decades
2030
254k born · 100k died · -28k net migration
TFR 2.43 · life expectancy 66.1 · median age 25.5
2040
245k born · 116k died · -20k net migration
TFR 2.21 · life expectancy 67.6 · median age 28.3
2050
233k born · 136k died · -12k net migration
TFR 2.06 · life expectancy 69.0 · median age 31.1
2060
221k born · 160k died · -12k net migration
TFR 1.96 · life expectancy 70.2 · median age 33.5
2070
209k born · 182k died · -12k net migration
TFR 1.89 · life expectancy 71.5 · median age 35.4
2080
196k born · 195k died · -12k net migration
TFR 1.84 · life expectancy 72.7 · median age 37.0
2090
184k born · 201k died · -11k net migration
TFR 1.80 · life expectancy 74.0 · median age 38.4
2100
172k born · 202k died · -11k net migration
TFR 1.77 · life expectancy 75.3 · median age 39.7

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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. Click a card for the full record.

National Teams Champions

Every major championship won by Haiti's national teams, newest first. 1 in total.

1973· 1973-12-18