Made with Xara Web Designer Population: 9.9 million Languages: Creole and French Adult Literacy: 62% Life Expectancy at Birth: 61 years Healthy Life Expectancy at Birth:  43 years Infant Mortality Rate: 76.01 per 1000 live births Labor Force: 3.6 million, tremendous shortage of skilled labor GNI per capita (US$): 560 Annual Rate of Inflation: 18% Haiti, 700 miles southeast of Florida, shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic.  Being in the West Indies, the climate is tropical.  Haiti is mostly mountainous, with less than 20% of the land open for agriculture.  It is the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. about Haiti