PEOPLE LIFE AND RELIGION

Present day Haiti, according to the CIA Fact Book, has population of 9,648,924. Breakdown as follows:

95% Black

5% White or Mullato

Nation Language:

French (official) Creole (official)

Age Structure:

0-14 -38.1%

15-64 -58.5%

only 3% of the population will age over 65

--Life Expectancy: 29 Males; 30 Females. This is due in large part to the HIGH rish of infectious disease, including HIV/AIDS (120,000 living with AIDS/HIV) as well as water and food borne diesease such as bacterial and protozoal diarrhea, hepatitis A and E, and typhoid fever. Also vectoreborne, meaning transferred by insect bites and the like, disease such as dengue fever and malaria. Lastly the introduction and increase of leptospirosis after the earthquake left citizen drinking from stagnant waters and lakes.

Religion:

80% Catholic

16% Protestant (10% Baptist, 4% Pentocostal. 1% Adventist)

Roughly HALF of the population still practices the indigenous Voodoo

Barrientos, Miguel. "index mundi." Jan 01,2010.http://www.indexmundi.com/haiti/demographics_profile.html (accessed 10/31/2010