- ISO 3166
HT- Main language + region
ht-HT- Currency
- HTG · Haitian Gourde
- Region
- not grouped
Haiti
Haiti has 11.8M people, and 5.6M of them are online. Haitian Creole is the most widely spoken language at 81%, one of 2 languages CLDR lists here. Haitian Creole and French are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to ht-HT.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
5.6M
0%world median 81%100%
48% of 11.8M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$2,694
Higher than 22% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
33%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2017. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
2
Haitian Creole 81% · French 42%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
444
Very lowVery high
Very low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
49%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Haiti
share of 11.8M people
- Haitian Creoleofficial81%9.5M
- Frenchofficial42%4.9M
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR also records diaspora populations, so a language reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (ht-HT).
Plural categories
2
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
April 21, 2026
Short: 4/21/26
Time
6:30 PM
Week starts Mon
Currency
HTG 1,234.56
1,234.56 in HTG · Haitian Gourde