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Luiz Yamasaki
Director
Middle Market

e-mail: lyamasaki@bladex.com
t: (55-11) 2198-9606

 

Ulysses Marciano
Director
Corporate Banking

e-mail: umarciano@bladex.com
t: (55-11) 2198-9606

 

Pierre Dulin
Director
Financial Institutions and Solutions

e-mail: pdulin@bladex.com
t: (1- 305) 358-8801


Currency exchange
07-Sep-2010

38.98 = 1US$





Asoc. Latinoamericana de Integración

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General Information

Total Population 9,927,000
Area 27,560 km2
Local Currency Gourde (HTG)
Literacy 52.9%
Economically active population 4,298,391
as % of total population 43.3%
Unemployment rate 67.0%
   
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 6,821 US$ millions
as % of Regional GDP 0.2% (Latin America GDP 2009 = US$ 3,928,300 millions)
GDP per Head 687 US$
Ranking in Latin America  

Important dates
  • January 1 - New Year
  • January 2 - Day of antepasados
  • Monday and Tuesday of Carnival - Change as the year
  • Ash Wednesday - Change as the year
  • Good Friday - Change as the year
  • May 1 - Day of the worker
  • May 18 - Flag Day
  • May 25 - Ascension Day
  • June 15 - Corpus Christi
  • August 15 - Ascension of Our Seora
  • October 17 - Birthday of Dessalines
  • October 24 - day UN
  • Novembre 2 - All Souls Days
  • December 5 - Day of discovery
  • December 25 - Christmas
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Economic Statistics
(years 2006 - 2009)
Haiti has a Gross Domestic Product of US$6,821MM. This is distributed by sectors in the following way: agriculture with 28.0%, having as main products coffee, sugarcane, mangoes, rice; industry with 20.0%, having as main products sugar refining, textiles, cement; and the services sector with 52.0%.
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National Accounts
National Accounts 2006 2007 2008 est. 2009 proj. 2010
▲% GDP (proj.10: Source IMF april 2010) 2.3% 3.4% 1.3% 2.0% -8.5%
Nominal GDP (US$ millions) 5,579 6,150 6,457 6,821  
GDP per Head (US$) 590 640 661 687  
GDP by Sector 100.0%        
Agriculture 28.0%        
Industry 20.0%        
Services 52.0%      
Inflation rate 10.2% 10.0% 10.1% -3.5% 5.6%
  0.0% -1.6% -1.2% -1.7%  

GPD Growth
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Trade Statistics
Regarding foreign trade, US represents its main commercial partner buying 86.4% of Haitian exports, whereas the main export products are constituted by manufactured products.


Foreign Trade (2008) See other countries
Exports Imports
By countries By countries
US 86.4%  
EU 11.5%  
Canada 0.7%  
Switzerland 0.5%  
By products By products
Manufactures 92.0% Manufactures 40.5%
Agricultural products 8.0% Agricultural products 30.7%
    Fuels and Mining Products 28.8%
   


Balance of Payments (US$ mill.) 2006 2007 2008 est. 2009 proj. 2010
 
Exports of goods 695 522 490 549  
Imports of goods 2,136 1,618 2,108 1,937  
Current Account Balance -73 7 -277 -68  
% GDP
 -1.3% 0.1% -4.3% -1.0%  




2006 2007 2008 est. 2009 proj. 2010
Foreign Debt Stock 1,484 1,628 1,917 2,017  
% GDP 26.6% 26.5% 29.7% 29.6%  
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