Haiti
Republic of Haiti
- Capital
- Port-au-Prince
- Region
- Caribbean
- Population, 2025
- 12 million
- Currency
- HTG
- Area
- 27,750 km²
Across Haiti's 2 priced cities, one person needs about $1,798 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,400.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%52
- Safety20%20
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%65
- Connectivity10%21
- Cost10%32
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 30%
- SourceWikipedia
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 30%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 10%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 20.2
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 79.8
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 41.2
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #118 worldwide
- 49
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- −4%
Cities in Haiti
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Les Cayes | 52 | — | — | — | — | 125.8K | Low confidence |
| 2Dessalines | 50 | — | — | — | — | 181.9K | Low confidence |
| 3Saint-Marc | 50 | — | — | — | — | 266.6K | Low confidence |
| 4Cap-Haïtien | 50 | — | — | — | — | 134.8K | Low confidence |
| 5Port-de-Paix | 49 | — | — | — | — | 306.2K | Low confidence |
| 6Arcahaie | 49 | — | — | — | — | 130.3K | Low confidence |
| 7Carrefour | 48 | 60.9 | $883 | $1,400 | 89.0 | 511.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 8Leogane | 48 | — | — | — | — | 134.2K | Low confidence |
| 9Tigwav | 48 | — | — | — | — | 117.5K | Low confidence |
| 10Jacmel | 48 | — | — | — | — | 138K | Low confidence |
| 11Delmas | 48 | — | — | — | — | 395.3K | Low confidence |
| 12Pétionville | 48 | — | — | — | — | 376.8K | Low confidence |
| 13Cité Soleil | 48 | — | — | — | — | 265.1K | Low confidence |
| 14Croix-des-Bouquets | 48 | — | — | — | — | 229.1K | Low confidence |
| 15Port-au-Prince | 44 | — | $911 | — | — | 1.2M | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 16Pétion-Ville | 31 | 65.4 | $1,149 | $766 | 41.1 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 17Thomazeau | — | — | — | — | — | 52K | Low confidence |
| 18Verrettes | — | — | — | — | — | 48.7K | Low confidence |