Haiti

Haiti: Country Intelligence Brief

Haiti's economy was valued at $25.22 billion in 2024, according to World Bank WDI figures, with GDP per capita at $2,142.62 the same year against a population of 11,772,557. Foreign reserves stood at $2.71 billion in 2024, per the same World Bank WDI series, and the IMF World Economic Outlook puts government debt at 10.7% of GDP in 2026. Taken together, the WDI and WEO figures describe an economy with a comparatively low headline debt load against GDP for the year reported, alongside reserves in the low single-digit billions.

Military capacity

SIPRI's Milex data put Haitian military expenditure at $39.14 million in 2025, equivalent to 0.121% of GDP on SIPRI's own GDP series for that year — a figure that should be read against SIPRI's GDP estimate rather than the separate World Bank GDP figure cited above. The Correlates of War National Material Capabilities dataset recorded 1,000 active-duty personnel in 2022 and assigned Haiti a Composite Index of National Capability (CINC) score of 0.00048488873 for the same year. Both the personnel count and the CINC score come from the 2022 COW release and are not updated elsewhere in this bundle.

Governance

V-Dem v15's 2025 indicators score Haiti's electoral democracy index at 0.238 and its liberal democracy index at 0.098, with the liberal democracy score running well below the electoral democracy score. The same release puts state capacity at 0.171. No further context on drivers of these scores is present in the bundle; the figures are reported as given, without an accompanying prior-year series to show whether they are rising, falling, or flat.

Energy

Our World in Data's energy series records primary energy supply of 0.0428 exajoules in 2023 and electricity generation of 0.86 terawatt-hours in 2024. Oil and gas production are both listed at 0.0 terawatt-hours, but that figure is dated to 2016 for both series.

Data gaps

The oil and gas production figures are nearly a decade stale, carrying a 2016 vintage against 2023–2025 dates for the rest of the bundle; a zero reading that old should not be read as a current-year assessment. Governance indicators carry a single reference year (2025) with no prior-year series supplied for trend context. No data was supplied on broader fiscal balance, trade, or security-sector composition beyond the personnel and CINC figures above.

Sources: World Bank WDI; IMF World Economic Outlook; SIPRI Milex; Correlates of War National Material Capabilities; V-Dem v15; Our World in Data (Energy).