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Dominican Republic vs Haiti
How Dominican Republic and Haiti compare on 37 measures, from 1789 to 2025. The main differences:
- Life expectancy · In 2023, Dominican Republic was higher: 73.7 years against 64.9 years
- GDP per person · In 2025, Dominican Republic was higher: $9,287 against $1,111
- Population · In 2023, Haiti was higher: 11.6 million people against 11.3 million people
- Military spending · In 2025, Dominican Republic was higher: 0.8% of GDP against 0.12% of GDP
- CO₂ per person · In 2024, Dominican Republic was higher: 3 tonnes against 0.3 tonnes
Life expectancy →Dominican RepublicHaitiEstimates, Our World in DataUN projection (medium variant)95% prediction intervalWorld
years · UN · log scale
Every measure
Dominican RepublicHaiti
| Measure | Dominican Republic | Haiti | Over the years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | |||
| Life expectancyyears · 2023 | 73.7 | 64.9 | |
| Child mortalitydeaths before age 5 per 100 live births · 2024 | 3.1 | 5.3 | |
| Infant mortalitydeaths per 1,000 live births · 2023 | 25.6 | 43.4 | |
| Depression% of people · 2017 | 2.98 | 2.96 | |
| Suicide ratedeaths per 100,000 people · 2017 | 8.9 | 8.6 | |
| People | |||
| Populationpeople · 2023 | 11.3 million | 11.6 million | |
| Population growth% a year · 2023 | 0.86 | 1.17 | |
| Fertility ratebirths per woman · 2023 | 2.24 | 2.66 | |
| Urban population% of people · 2025 | 72.5 | 55.6 | |
| Median ageyears · 2023 | 27.7 | 23.5 | |
| People aged 65 and over% of people · 2023 | 7.6 | 4.6 | |
| Net migration rateper 1,000 people · 2023 | -3.1 | -2.7 | |
| Economy | |||
| GDP per personUS dollars at 2015 prices · 2025 | $9,287 | $1,111 | |
| GDP growth% a year · 2025 | 2.1 | -4.22024 | |
| Inflation% a year · 2025 | 3.9 | 25.82024 | |
| Government debt% of GDP · 2025 | 59 | 15.12024 | |
| Education | |||
| Learning-adjusted schoolingyears · 2020 | 6.6 | 6.2 | |
| Adult literacy% of adults · 2024 | 94 | 682017 | |
| Girls in primary school% of girls of primary-school age · 2018 | 92.7 | 57.41997 | |
| Politics | |||
| Electoral democracyindex, 0 to 1 · 2025 | 0.74 | 0.24 | |
| Human rightsindex, 0 to 1 · 2025 | 0.87 | 0.74 | |
| Conflict | |||
| Deaths in conflictsdeaths a year · 2022 | 0 | 235 | |
| Military | |||
| Military spending% of GDP · 2025 | 0.8 | 0.12 | |
| Military spending in US dollarsUS dollars at 2024 prices · 2025 | $1.04B | $30.4M | |
| Military spending per personUS dollars per person · 2025 | $90 | $3 | |
| Military share of state spending% of government spending · 2025 | 4.1 | 2.4 | |
| Armed forces personnelpeople · 2020 | 71,000 | 1,000 | |
| National power% of world capability · 2022 | 0.11 | 0.05 | |
| Armed forces, share of workers% of the labour force · 2020 | 1.48 | 0.02 | |
| Arms importsSIPRI trend-indicator values · 2025 | 13 million | 1 million | |
| Climate | |||
| Temperature°C · 2025 | 25 | 26 | |
| Days above 35 °Cdays a year · 2014 | 0.9 | 0.8 | |
| Tropical nightsnights a year · 2014 | 234.2 | 298.9 | |
| Technology and environment | |||
| CO₂ per persontonnes per person · 2024 | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Internet users% of people · 2024 | 91 | 47.9 | |
| Access to electricity% of people · 2024 | 99.5 | 53.9 | |
| Forest area% of land · 2024 | 46.7 | 13.5 | |
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Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
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