Head of state: Queen Elizabeth II, represented by a governor-general Prime minister: Danny Philip
President: Michel Martelly
Population
584,578
9,801,664
Life Expectancy
74.420 years
62.510 years
Capital City
Port-au-Prince
Largest city
Honiara (population: 56,298)
Port-au-Prince (population: 1,234,740)
Human Development Index
0.591
0.521
GDP per capita
$1,300 US
Literacy Rate
%
52.9%
Corruption Perception Index
2.9
1.4
Percentage of Women in Parliament
0%
5.2%
Wealthiest Citizens
Unemployment Rate
40.600%
Death Penalty
Abolished
Abolished
Political System
parliamentary democracy
republic
Independence date
1 January 1804 (from France)
Religions
Church of Melanesia 32.8%, Roman Catholic 19%, South Seas Evangelical 17%, Seventh-Day Adventist 11.2%, United Church 10.3%, Christian Fellowship Church 2.4%, other Christian 4.4%, other 2.4%, unspecified 0.3%, none 0.2% (1999 census)
Roman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16% (Baptist 10%, Pentecostal 4%, Adventist 1%, other 1%), none 1%, other 3% note: roughly half of the population practices voodoo
Languages
Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English (official; but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population); 120 indigenous languages
