2025-12-31

Haiti's GDP contracted 5.1 percent in 2010 following the January earthquake that killed over 200000 people and destroyed critical infrastructure. The current 16 percent cumulative decline from 2019 to 2025 exceeds that single-year shock spread across seven years, indicating sustained systemic failure. Previous multi-year contractions occurred during the 1991-1994 embargo period following the coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the 2004-2006 political violence following Aristide's second departure. The 2019-2025 period represents the longest sustained economic contraction in Haiti's modern history.