cupation: agriculture 66%, services 25%, industry 9%
Unemployment rate: widespread unemployment and underemployment; more
than two-thirds of the labor force do not have formal jobs (2001)
Budget: revenues: $273 million expenditures: $361 million, including
capital expenditures of $NA (FY00/01 est.)
Industries: sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement, light
assembly industries based on imported parts
Industrial production growth rate: 0.6% (1997 est.)
Electricity - production: 522 million kWh (2000)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 68.97% hydro: 31.03%
other: 0% (2000) nuclear: 0%
Electricity - consumption: 485.46 million kWh (2000)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2000)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2000)
Agriculture - products: coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn,
sorghum; wood
Exports: $326.6 million (f.o.b., 2001)
Exports - commodities: manufactures, coffee, oils, cocoa
Exports - partners: US 90%, EU 6% (2000)
Imports: $977.5 million (c.i.f., 2001)
Imports - commodities: food, manufactured goods, machinery and transport
equipment, fuels, raw materials
Imports - partners: US 60%, EU 10.5%, Dominican Republic 3.7% (2000)
Debt - external: $1.2 billion (1999)
Economic aid - recipient: $730.6 million (1995)
Currency: gourde (HTG)
Currency code: HTG
Exchange rates: gourdes per US dollar - 26.674 (January 2002), 26.339
(2001), 22.524 (2000), 17.965 (1999), 16.505 (1998), 17.311 (1997)
Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September
Communications Haiti
Telephones - main lines in use: 60,000 (1997)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 0 (1995)
Telephone system: general assessment: domestic facilities barely
adequate; international facilities slightly better domestic: coaxial
cable and microwave radio relay trunk service international: satellite
earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 41, FM 26, shortwave 0 (1999)
Radios: 415,000 (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 2 (plus a cable TV service) (1997)
Televisions: 38,000 (1997)
Internet country code: .ht
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 3 (2000)
Internet users: 6,000 (2000)
Transportation Haiti
Railways: 40 km 0.760-m gauge; single-track note: Highways: total:
4,160 km paved: 1,011 km unpaved: 3,149 km (1996)
Waterways: NEGL; less than 100 km navigable
Ports and harbors: Cap-Haitien, Gonaives, Jacmel, Jeremie, Les
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