
Telecommunication in Haiti
Compared to the United States, Haiti is massively lagging behind in the development of telecommunications. Under the country code +509, there were a total of 7.33 million connections in 2021. Among them were 7.32 million mobile phones, which corresponds to an average of 0.65 per person. In the US, this figure is 1.1 mobile phones per person.With about 555 webhosts, Haiti is below the world's average by population. At the end of 2020, 87 of these, or about 16 percent, were secured with SSL or comparable encryption.
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Development of telephone and internet connections
With an average download speed of 15.02 Mbit/second for fixed-network broadband internet, Haiti ranks 135th in an international comparison. The upload rate was only 7.7 Mbit/second (137th place).In mobile internet, i.e., on tablets and smartphones, Haiti comes 141st with a download speed of 3.8 Mbit/second. The upload speed of around 2 Mbit was enough for 140th place.
The Speedtest Global Index published regularly by Ookla is based on several million individual measurements in October 2022 from 180 countries.
The following diagrams show the development of the various telephone and internet connections as a percentage of the country's population. Values above 100 percent mean that, on average, every inhabitant has more than one connection.
Access to the internet in Haiti from 1990 - 2020
Broadband internet in Haiti 2012 - 2020
