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10 Facts about Haiti

  • Robbie S.
  • Jan 24, 2017
  • 1 min read

Native Haitians were pre-Columbian Amerindians called Taíno, “the good people.” The Taíno named their land “Ayiti,” meaning “Land of Mountains”—a term that evolved into “Haiti.”

  • More than 10% of Haitian children die before age five

  • Eighty percent of Haitians live under the poverty line

  • The average per capita income in Haiti is $480 a year, compared to $33,550 in the United States

  • Haiti has the highest percentage of orphans of any country in the Western Hemisphere. Before the 2010 earthquake, the United Nations estimated there were 430,000 orphans.

  • Nearly 1.5 million people left Haiti in the early 1990s

  • A typical worker in Haiti makes only $2.75 a day

  • Because jobs are so scarce approximately 70% of people do not have regular jobs

  • Only 53% of Haitians can read and write

  • Haiti’s national sport is soccer. Haiti first competed in the World Cup in 1974


 
 
 

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