facts about haiti
- Haiti has a population of 9.145 million people(Haiti Population)
- Haiti is located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with the Dominican Republic(Haiti Country Profile)
- The main industries of Haiti are sugar refining, flour milling, textiles and cement.(Facts About Haiti)
- Decades of violence and instability in Haiti has made it the poorest country in the Americas.(Facts About Haiti)
- Haiti is said to be the poorest nation in the western hemisphere(Sentlinger)
- Haiti is on the undeveloped countries list(Haiti Country Profile)
- People like Americans or Europeans sometimes fail to realize that having an access to clean costs a lot of money. Haiti is literally surrounded by water, however that water is unsafe to drink and it would cost millions of dollars to make it drinkable. Moreover, due to the countries susceptibility to countless amounts of hurricanes, tropical storms, earthquakes, and other natural disasters makes it even harder for Haiti to focus on solving its water scarcity problem.