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The gourde ( French: [ɡuʁd]) or goud ( Haitian Creole: [ɡud]) is the currency of Haiti. Its ISO 4217 code is HTG and it is divided into 100 centimes (French) or santim (Creole). The word "gourde" is a French cognate for the Spanish term "gordo", from the "pesos gordos" (also known in English as "hard" pieces of eight, and in French as ...
The United States dollar ( symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
The Bank of the Republic of Haiti (Haitian Creole: Bank Repiblik Dayiti, French: Banque de la République d'Haïti; BRH) is the central bank of Haiti.It was formed in 1979 from the National Bank of the Republic of Haiti (French: Banque Nationale de la République d'Haïti), which had served as the country's bank of issue since 1910, itself succeeding the National Bank of Haiti.
Population of Haiti. According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects [2] [3] the total population of Haiti in 2018 was 11,447,569, as compared to 3,221,000 in 1950. In 2015, the proportion of children below the age of 15 was 36.2%. 59.7% of the population was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 4.5% was 65 years or older. [4]
The international dollar ( int'l dollar or intl dollar, symbols Int'l$., Intl$., Int$ ), also known as Geary–Khamis dollar (symbols G–K$ or GK$ ), is a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power parity that the U.S. dollar had in the United States at a given point in time. [1] [2] It is mainly used in economics and ...
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (French: Ministère de l'Économie et des Finances, MEF) is a ministry of the Government of Haiti. This ministry is responsible for Economy and Finance along with providing support to the Prime Minister. See also. List of finance ministers of Haiti; References
The recorded history of Haiti began in 1492, when the European captain and explorer Christopher Columbus landed on a large island in the region of the western Atlantic Ocean that later came to be known as the Caribbean. The western portion of the island of Hispaniola, where Haiti is situated, was inhabited by the Taíno and Arawakan people, who ...
Haiti was a French colony, and the final years of the 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution brought a wave of French settlers and their Haitian slaves to Cuba. They came mainly to the east, and especially Guantanamo, where the French later introduced sugar cultivation, constructed sugar refineries and developed coffee plantations.