Geographic note: shares island of Hispaniola with Dominican
Republic (western one-third is Haiti, eastern two-thirds is the
Dominican Republic)
People ———
Population: 6,731,539 (July 1996 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 46% (male 1,568,943; female 1,523,406)
15-64 years: 50% (male 1,614,679; female 1,758,388)
65 years and over: 4% (male 132,460; female 133,663) (July 1996 est.)
Population growth rate: 1.77% (1996 est.)
Birth rate: 38.15 births/1,000 population (1996 est.)
Death rate: 15.96 deaths/1,000 population (1996 est.)
Net migration rate: -4.52 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1996 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.03 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.92 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.99 male(s)/female
all ages: 0.97 male(s)/female (1996 est.)
Infant mortality rate: 103.8 deaths/1,000 live births (1996 est.)