Est. Population: 8,706,497 (July 2007 est.)

Land Area: slightly smaller than Maryland

Literacy Rate: 52.9%

Caribbean, western one-third of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, west of the Dominican Republic

black 95%, mulatto and white 5%

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

The Sponsorship Program of the Free Methodist Church began in Haiti in 1966.  We have over 50 elementary schools and three secondary schools with over 6,000 children assisted through our Child Care Ministries Sponsorship Program.  All schools open on October 1st and close on June 30th.  The largest amount of sponsorsed children reside in Haiti.

 

CIA World Factbook: Haiti