Economía - descripción: About 80% of the population lives in abject poverty. Nearly 70% of all Haitians depend on the agriculture sector, which consists mainly of small-scale subsistence farming and employs about two-thirds of the economically active work force. The country has experienced little job creation since President PREVAL took office in February 1996, although the informal economy is growing. Failure to reach agreements with international sponsors have denied Haiti badly needed budget and development assistance. Meeting aid conditions in 2000 will be especially challenging in the face of mounting popular criticism of reforms.

Producto Bruto Interno (PBI): purchasing power parity - $9.2 billion (1999 est.)

PBI - Indice de Incremento real: 2.4% (1999 est.)

PBI - por capital: purchasing power parity - $1,340 (1999 est.)

PBI - Composición por Sector:
agriculture: 32%
industry: 20%
services: 48% (1998 est.)

Población bajo linea de pobertad: 80% (1998 est.)

Ingreso en casa o porcentage de consumción:
lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

Indice de Inflación (precios del consumidor): 9% (1999 est.)

Fuerza Laboral: 3.6 million (1995)
note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant (1998)

Fuerza Laboral - por ocupación: agriculture 66%, services 25%, industry 9%

Indice de desempleo: 70%; widespread underemployment; more than two-thirds of the labor force do not have formal jobs (1999)

Presupuesto:
revenues: $323 million
expenditures: $363 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY97/98 est.)

Industrias: sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement, tourism, light assembly industries based on imported parts

Industrial production growth rate: 0.6% (1997 est.)

Electricidad - Producción: 728 million kWh (1998)

Electricidad - producción por fuente:
fossil fuel: 55.63%
hydro: 41.62%
nuclear: 0%
other: 2.75% (1998)

Electricidad - consumción: 677 million kWh (1998)

Electricidad - exportaciones: 0 kWh (1998)

Electricidad - importaciones: 0 kWh (1998)

Agricultura - productos: coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn, sorghum; wood

Exportaciones: $322 million (f.o.b., 1999)

Exporationes - comodidades: manufactures, coffee, oils, mangoes

Exportaciones - socios: US 86%, EU 11% (1998)

Importaciones: $762 million (c.i.f., 1999)

Importaciones - comodidades: food, machinery and transport equipment, fuels

Importaciones - socios: US 60%, EU 12% (1998)

Deuda - externa: $1 billion (1997 est.)

Ayuda economica - recipiente: $730.6 million (1995)

Moneda: 1 gourde (G) = 100 centimes

Indice de intercambio: gourdes (G) per US$1 - 18.262 (January 2000), 17.965 (1999), 16.505 (1998), 17.311 (1997), 15.093 (1996), 16.160 (1995)

Año Fiscal: 1 October - 30 September