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.

purchasing power parity - $9.2 billion (1999 est.)

2.4% (1999 est.)

purchasing power parity - $1,340 (1999 est.)

agriculture: 32%
industry: 20%
services: 48% (1998 est.)

80% (1998 est.)

lowest 10%: NA%
highest 10%: NA%

9% (1999 est.)

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

agriculture 66%, services 25%, industry
9%

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

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

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

0.6% (1997 est.)

728 million kWh (1998)

fossil fuel: 55.63%
hydro: 41.62%
nuclear: 0%
other: 2.75% (1998)

677 million kWh (1998)

0 kWh (1998)

0 kWh (1998)

coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn,
sorghum; wood

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

manufactures, coffee, oils, mangoes

US 86%, EU 11% (1998)

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

food, machinery and transport equipment, fuels

US 60%, EU 12% (1998)

$1 billion (1997 est.)

$730.6 million (1995)

1 gourde (G) = 100 centimes

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

1 October - 30 September