Import Export leads from companies wanting to do business with Haiti

Area: total: 27,750 sq km
land: 27,560 sq km
water: 190 sq km

Climate: tropical semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds

Terrain: mostly rough and mountainous

Natural resources: bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble, hydropower

Population: 8,924,553
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 41.8% [male 1,881,509/female 1,851,591]
15-64 years: 54.7% [male 2,386,761/female 2,495,233]
65 years and over: 3.5% [male 135,695/female 173,764] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Haitian[s]
adjective: Haitian

Ethnic groups: black 95%, mulatto and white 5%

Languages: French [official], Creole [official]

Capital: name: Port-au-Prince
geographic coordinates: 18 32 N, 72 20 W
time difference: UTC-5 [same time as Washington, DC during Standard Time]
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins first Sunday in April ends last Sunday in October

National holiday: Independence Day, 1 January [1804]

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 28%
industry: 20%
services: 52% [2004 est.]

Labor force: 3.6 million
note: shortage of skilled labor, unskilled labor abundant [1995]

Budget: revenues: $926.3 million
expenditures: $1.045 billion [2007 est.]

Agriculture - products: coffee, mangoes, sugarcane, rice, corn, sorghum wood

Industries: sugar refining, flour milling, textiles, cement, light assembly based on imported parts

Exports: $524 million f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Exports - commodities: apparel, manufactures, oils, cocoa, mangoes, coffee

Exports - partners: US 79.8%, Dominican Republic 7.6%, Canada 3% [2006]

Imports: $1.614 billion f.o.b. [2007 est.]

Imports - commodities: food, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, fuels, raw materials

Imports - partners: US 46.6%, Netherlands Antilles 11.9%, Brazil 3.8% [2006]

Currency (code): gourde [HTG]

Exchange rates: gourdes per US dollar - 37.138 [2007], 40.232 [2006], 40.449 [2005], 38.352 [2004], 42.367 [2003]

Airports: 14 [2007]

Ports and terminals: Cap-Haitien