Haiti

Name: Joy Marie Prior
Today’s Date: 21 January 2010
Country: Haiti
Government type: Republic
Religions: Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%, other 1%), roughly half the population practices voodoo
GDP (purchasing power parity): $11.53 billion
Population: 9,035,536
Population growth rate: 1.838%
Life expectancy at birth (total population): 60.78 years
Debt- external: $1.817 billion
Literacy (total population): 52.9%
Unemployment rate: NA%, assumed that more than 2/3 of labor force do not have formal jobs
Telephones (mobile cellular): 3.2 million
Internet users: 1 million
Military expenditures (% of GDP): 0.4%
Education expenditures (% of GDP): 1.4%