reserves:

0 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)

Current account balance:

-$467 million (2007 est.)

Exports:

$522 million f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Exports - commodities:

apparel, manufactures, oils, cocoa, mangoes, coffee

Exports - partners:

US 72.9%, Dominican Republic 8.8%, Canada 3.3% (2007)

Imports:

$1.734 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)

Imports - commodities:

food, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, fuels,
raw materials

Imports - partners:

US 41.2%, Netherlands Antilles 14.9%, China 4.7%, Brazil 4.4% (2007)

Economic aid - recipient:

$515 million (2005 est.)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

$444 million (31 December 2007 est.)

Debt - external:

$1.475 billion (31 December 2007 est.)

Market value of publicly traded shares:

$NA

Currency (code):

gourde (HTG)

Currency code:

HTG

Exchange rates:

gourdes (HTG) per US dollar - 37.138 (2007), 40.232 (2006), 40.449
(2005), 38.352 (2004), 42.367 (2003)

Communications
Haiti

Telephones - main lines in use:

150,000 (2006)

Telephones - mobile cellular:

2.2 million (2007)

Telephone system:

general assessment: domestic facilities barely adequate;
international facilities slightly better; telephone density in Haiti
remains the lowest in the Latin American and Caribbean region
domestic: coaxial cable and microwave radio relay trunk service;
combined fixed and mobile-cellular teledensity is about 25 per 100
persons
international: country code - 509; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 41, FM 26, shortwave 0 (1999)

Radios:

415,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

2 (plus a cable TV service) (1997)

Televisions:

38,000 (1997)

Internet country code:

.ht

Internet hosts:

7 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

3 (2000)

Internet users:

1 million (2007)

Transportation
Haiti

Airports:

14 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 9 (2007)

Roadways:

total: 4,160 km
paved: 1,011 km
unpaved: 3,149 km (2000)

Ports and terminals:

Cap-Haitien

Military
Haiti

Military branches:

no regular military forces - small Coast Guard; the regular Haitian
Armed Forces (FAdH) - Army, N