HAITI Media and Telecoms Landscape Guide - Infoasaid

17Schools began to teach Creole in the 1990s. Since then there has been a noticeabledecline in the quality of written and spoken French in Haiti.English is increasingly used as the main language of business. Some commercialbillboards are in English only.Spanish is spoken by those who have worked or studied in the neighbouringDominican Republic. The Dominican border is only 40 km from Port-au-Prince.People switch easily from one language to the other.Haiti at a glanceLanguagesCreole and FrenchMain religionsRoman Catholic 80%, Protestant 16%, other 4%, buthalf the population also practices voodoo (CIA WorldFact Book)Ethnic groups black 95%, mulatto and white 5%Population 10.1 million (World Bank estimate 2012)Life expectancy 62.1 years (UN Human Development Report 2011)Gross Domestic Product(GDP) per capitaAdult literacy rate$671 (World Bank 2010)48.7 % (UNESCO 2006 estimate)53.4% men44.6% womenMobile phone lines 4.2 million (ITU 2011)Mobile phones per 100inhabitantsPercentage of populationusing the internetRanking in UN HumanDevelopmentIndex 2011Ranking in Reporters SansFrontières 2011-2012 PressFreedom Index41.5 (ITU 2011)8.4% (ITU 2010)158 out of 187 countries52 out of 179 countries17