HAITI GENDER SCORECARD
2025
OVERVIEW OF KEY GENDER GAPS
According to data for 2018,
Although declining, Haiti’s more than 1 in 10 women had While women are more likely
adolescent fertility rate experienced physical and/ to be victims of domestic
remains higher than the or sexual intimate partner violence, men engage in
average for lower-middle violence in the past 12 months. riskier behaviors and have a
income countries. Current figures might be higher lower life expectancy.
due to rising gang violence.
There is a 5.3 percentage Although low in general,
point gender gap in access access to the internet is 18
to a financial account percentage points lower
against women. among women than men.
This scorecard was prepared by Daniela A. Maquera Sardón and Paola Buitrago-Hernández as
part of the LCR Regional Gender Coordination in the Poverty and Equity Global Practice. The tool
benefited from support of the LAC Statistical Team within the same practice.
GENDER EQUALITY IN HAITI COMPARED TO ITS REGIONAL, STRUCTURAL AND
ASPIRATIONAL PEERS
The indicators below align with the objectives of the WB Gender Strategy 2024-2030. The table shows comparable data for the most recent year
(within the period 2015 to 2023) and trends for the available years starting from 2010.
Comparators for Benchmarking (all consider the latest data point available for the period 2015-2023) :
• Regional: average for the LAC region.
• Structural: average for the country’s income-level group (high, upper-middle, lower-middle, or low income).
• Aspirational: average of the top 5 countries in the Global Gender Gap Index 2024 (Iceland, Finland, Norway, New Zealand, and Sweden).
Benchmarks Country’s status
Topic Indicator Country Regional Structural Country’s trend
Aspirational relative to LAC
(LAC) (LMC)
Female graduates from tertiary education
Foundational Well-being: Human Capital and
NA 11.9† NA 14
in STEM programs (%)
STEM fields
Gender-Based Violence
Male graduates from tertiary education in NA 31.2† NA 40.3
STEM programs (%)
Share of youth not in education,
employment or training, female (% of NA 25.4 34 6.4
female youth population ages 15-24)
School- 2010 2014 2018 2022
to-work
transition
Share of youth not in education,
employment or training, male (% of male NA 13.2 11.8 6.9
youth population ages 15-24)
2010 2014 2018 2022
Benchmarks Country’s status
Topic Indicator Country Regional Structural Country’s trend
Aspirational relative to LAC
(LAC) (LMC)
Lower secondary completion rate, female
Foundational Well-being: Human Capital and
NA 76 69.3 98.2
(% of relevant age group)
School
dropout
Gender-Based Violence
Lower secondary completion rate, male (% NA 71.7 68.6 99.7
of relevant age group)
Teenage Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 50.6
51.7 42 4.2
pregnancy women ages 15-19) [2022]
2010 2014 2018 2022
Violence Proportion of women subjected to physical
against and/or sexual violence in the last 12 12*
8.2† NA 5
women and months (% of ever-partnered women ages [2018]
girls 15-49) 2010 2014 2018 2022
Vulnerable employment (contributing
Economic Opportunities
family and own account), female 80.3
32.8 70.9 7.9
and Participation
(% of female employment) (modeled ILO [2022]
estimate) 2010 2014 2018 2022
More and
better jobs
Vulnerable employment (contributing 68.6
family and own account), male (% of male 33 62.8 12
employment) (modeled ILO estimate) [2022]
2010 2014 2018 2022
Benchmarks Country’s status
Topic Indicator Country Regional Structural Country’s trend
Aspirational relative to LAC
(LAC) (LMC)
Account ownership at a financial institution 30
or with a mobile-money-service provider, 70.1 59.2 99.7
female (% of population ages 15+) [2017]
Ownership 2010 2014 2018 2022
and control
of productive
assets
Account ownership at a financial institution 35.3
or with a mobile-money-service provider, 77 65.5 99.3
male (% of population ages 15+) [2017]
Economic Opportunities and Participation
2010 2014 2018 2022
Internet access from any device and 25*
location, female (% of population ages 76.9† NA 97.8
15+) [2018]
2010 2014 2018 2022
Digital
inclusion
Internet access from any device and 43*
78† NA 98.2
location, male (% of population ages 15+) [2018]
2010 2014 2018 2022
Proportion of time spent on unpaid
domestic and care work, female NA NA NA 14.1
(% of 24-hour day)
Time spent
on unpaid
household
work
Proportion of time spent on unpaid
domestic and care work, male NA NA NA 10.7
(% of 24-hour day)
Benchmarks Country’s status
Topic Indicator Country Regional Structural Country’s trend
Aspirational relative to LAC
(LAC) (LMC)
Women in Female share of employment in senior and
Female Leadership
NA 39.6† NA 37.7
management middle management (%)
Women Firms with female participation in NA 47.4 30.8 46.5
entrepreneurs ownership (% of firms)
Sources: Data extracted on December 18, 2024, from the WBG World Development Indicators (WDI) and Gender Statistics databases, unless otherwise specified. The symbol (*) indicates any of the following complementary sources: STEM-related data is sourced from the UNESCO Database,
digital access data from the Gallup World Poll 2023, and Violence Against Women and Girls data from the World Health Organization (WHO).
NA indicates data is not available for specific countries or peer groups.
Notes: LAC average includes the 42 countries (all income levels) in Latin America and the Caribbean, as classified by The World Bank Group. When regional averages were unavailable, weighted averages were constructed (denoted with the symbol †) using population data of relevant age groups
from the WDI and for the countries with available data on the corresponding indicator. These represent 90-99% of the respective age population in the LAC region.
The country’s status is assessed using a Traffic Light System: yellow if the country is within a ±3 percentage-point range of the regional average; green or red if the country scores 3 percentage points higher or lower than the regional average, depending on the expected trend for the specified
indicator. A missing traffic light indicates that comparisons could not be made due to insufficient data.
For FY25, income groups are defined according to 2023 gross national income (GNI) per capita (in USD), calculated using the World Bank Atlas method:
HIC: high-income group aggregate; economies with a GNI per capita higher than $14,005.
UMC: upper middle-income group aggregate; economies with a GNI per capita between $4,516 and $14,005.
LMC: lower middle-income group aggregate; economies with a GNI per capita between $1,146 and $4,515.
LIC: low-income group aggregate; economies with a GNI per capita of $1,145 or less.
THE POVERTY AND GENDER NEXUS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Female and male poverty rates
(USD 6.85 per day 2017 PPP) by age group, circa 2023
30 During productive
25 and reproductive
20 ages, women
are more likely
15 to live in poor
%
10
households than
men.
5
0
0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65-69 70-74 75+
Source: The numbers presented in the graph are based on the regional data harmonization effort known as the Socio-economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean (SEDLAC) - a joint effort of the World
Bank and CEDLAS from the National University of La Plata (Argentina). The LAC aggregate is based on 16 countries for which harmonized, income-based microdata for the years 2022 or 2023 were available.
Countries included are: Argentina (urban only), Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. For
some countries, the data is preliminary.
TURNING RESEARCH AND EVIDENCE INTO ACTION
Below are persistent gender gaps1 in LAC and corresponding evidence-based interventions that can help close them.
Women in STEM Fields School-to-Work Transition
Young women are more likely than young
Women are underrepresented in STEM
men to be out of employment, not in
graduate programs and careers
education or training
Evidence-based solutions Evidence-based solutions
• Promote women’s participation in non-traditional skills training programs by
• Address gender biases in teaching and build a ‘science identity’ for girls. subsidizing attendance costs.
• Expose young girls to female mentors and role models in STEM. • Supplement in-classroom training with on-the-job internships.
• Fund female students and researchers through scholarships, postdocs, and internships • Strengthen labor intermediation with local and private entities for better training and
to retain women in STEM careers. targeting of vulnerable women.
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Boys’ School Dropout Teenage Pregnancy
Fewer boys complete lower secondary Girls from lower socio-economic status face
school than girls higher risk of teenage pregnancy
Evidence-based solutions Evidence-based solutions
• Inform boys on wage returns to secondary education to raise interest to stay in school.
• Offer financial incentives like CCT or vouchers conditional to school attendance and • Offer peer-to-peer sexual and reproductive health education.
academic progress. • Include goal-setting and critical thinking activities in life skills trainings.
• Train teachers on how to identify at-risk students and offer remedial learning to those • Avoid teen mothers’ school dropout through CCT programs.
falling behind.
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1 There are more gender gaps in LAC beyond the ones presented here. However, this scorecard focuses on the priority areas identified by the Regional Gender Action Plan FY21-FY25.
Violence Against Women and Girls More and Better Jobs
On average, 1 in 3 women In most LAC countries, the average woman
are subjected to violence has a vulnerable job
Evidence-based solutions Evidence-based solutions
• Supplement economic empowerment programs with activities like community activism • Offer certification in non-traditional sectors, combined with on-the-job training.
and school-based interventions to prevent dating violence.
• Guarantee parental leave and equal pay for equal work between men and women.
• Create and ensure safe spaces in schools and public transport.
• Adopt workplace strategies that promote the recruitment of women such as quotas in
• Develop intersectoral response as well as phone and internet helplines to improve the short lists and gender-inclusive language in job postings.
prevention and detection of gender-based violence.
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Ownership and Control of Productive Assets Women Entrepreneurs
Women are less likely to own and control Women tend to segregate in less profitable
assets than men sectors
Evidence-based solutions Evidence-based solutions
• Formalize joint titling and registration of property rights for female heads of • Combine business training with increased women’s access to grants and lending
households. assistance.
• Simplify procedures for women’s access to housing. • Match female entrepreneurs to male role models and mentors.
• Train land administration staff on gender-equitable governance. • Expand women’s credit access using alternative forms of collateral.
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Time Spent on Unpaid Household Work Digital inclusion
Women spend significantly more time on Women face specific barriers to accessing
unpaid domestic and care work than men the internet
Evidence-based solutions Promising approaches
• Expand digital infrastructure to address women’s specific needs in access, affordability
• Expand the supply of good-quality childcare services that meet families’ needs and usage.
(location, times, ages served).
• Develop digital skills for girls and adult women through hands-on exposure to
• Subsidize childcare services to increase mothers’ labor participation and earnings. technology and practical trainings.
• Complement paternity or parental leave policies with parenting guidance for fathers • Promote women’s use of digital financial services through payments, social assistance,
offered via virtual workshops and SMS messages. or agricultural transfers.
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Gender data gaps
Gender data are limited: often incomplete,
methodologically inaccurate, or completely
lacking.
Evidence-based solutions
• Mainstream the adoption of international best practices in the production of gender
data.
• Leverage existing engagements with National Statistical Offices regionally.
COUNTRY RESOURCES
Legislative and regulatory framework
• Haiti WBL – brief on laws and regulations affecting women’s economic opportunities
Gender strategic framework
• Haiti Country Partnership Framework FY16-19 (2017)
• Haiti Systematic Country Diagnostic Update: Pathways to Responding to Recurrent Crises and Chronic Fragility (2022)
• USAID/Haiti Strategic Framework Gender Analysis (2020)
• Country Gender Assessment - Haiti’s untapped potential: An assessment of the barriers to gender equality (2023)
Country-specific data and analysis
• Haiti WB Gender Landscape
• Gender-Based Violence Country Profile: Haiti
• Taking the Pulse of the Caribbean – Monitoring the Welfare of Caribbean Households During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Results from LAC High Frequency Phone Surveys (2022)
• COVID-19: Impacts, Attitudes, and Safety Nets in Haiti - CARE (2021)
• How Behavioral Science can Nudge Pregnant Women to Attend Prenatal Care in Haiti (2019)
• Haiti Country Profile – Gender Equality Observatory, ECLAC
• Haiti Fact Sheet – UN WOMEN