Cost of Living inPort-de-Paix, Haiti
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Purchasing Power vs. United States
Based on GDP per capita (PPP). Haiti: $2,810/capita.
Income Category
GDP per Capita
City Population
Child Education
Public-schooling rules and international-school pricing are not sourced for Haiti yet. Quality, expat-access, instruction language, and tuition will appear here once verified.
Childcare & Domestic Help
Nanny, housekeeper, and driver pricing is not yet sourced for Port-de-Paix. We publish this section only when we can tie it to local job-board, agency, or country fallback evidence.
Getting Around
Neighborhood mobility profiles are rolling out city by city.Port-de-Paix is still missing a verified walkability, transit, airport, and rideshare profile.
Healthcare
System strength, outcome signals, facility coverage, and self-pay visibility in Haiti.
Method: country metrics come from public system indicators, facility coverage reflects mapped providers we can inventory, direct pricing only reflects observed self-pay pages, and relative care cost can fall back to broad cost-of-living healthcare indices. Sparse pricing does not imply sparse healthcare availability.
Healthcare system
LimitedSolid hospital-bed capacity help, but coverage looks thinner and doctor staffing is lighter.
Public care
LimitedPublic coverage looks thinner, public funding looks lighter, and patients still shoulder a meaningful share of costs weigh on this rating.
Private care
LimitedSelf-pay pricing transparency is still sparse weigh on this rating.
UHC coverage
44/100
2023
Physicians
0.29/1k
2022
Hospital beds
4.90/1k
2023
Out of pocket
52%
2023
Outcome signals
Life expectancy
65.1 yrs
2024
Maternal mortality
328/100k
2023
Neonatal mortality
22.6/1k
2024
International patient readiness
LimitedThere is visible specialty depth help, but price transparency is still sparse and headline outcomes are less reassuring.
Pricing transparency
LimitedPublished self-pay prices are scarce and few facilities expose web pages we can verify weigh on this rating.
Facility coverage
Self-pay pricing visibility
No verified self-pay prices are published for the tracked facilities in Haiti yet.
This usually reflects low online price transparency rather than a lack of healthcare providers.
Notable facilities
System metrics: World Bank WDI · Updated 2026-06-01
Safety & Governance
Street Safety
Source: Numbeo where a city row is matched; otherwise World Bank WGI and country-level safety context.
Political Stability
World Bank WGI scale: -2.5 to +2.5.
Wages by Sector
| Sector | Median |
|---|---|
| Administrative & Support Services | — |
| Agriculture & Farming | — |
| Arts, Entertainment & Recreation | — |
| Construction | — |
| Education | — |
| Finance & Insurance | — |
| Healthcare & Social Work | — |
| Hospitality & Food Service | — |
| Information & Technology | — |
| Manufacturing | — |
| Mining & Quarrying | — |
| Other Services | — |
| Professional & Scientific Services | — |
| Public Administration & Defence | — |
| Real Estate | — |
| Retail & Wholesale Trade | — |
| Transport & Logistics | — |
| Utilities | — |
2024 annual wages in Port-de-Paix, Haiti · Source: GDP-derived estimate (national)
Price Comparison vs. US
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Quick comparison FAQ
Structured from the deltas already shown on this page — no invented facts, no extra data sources.
How far does your money go in Port-de-Paix compared with the US?
Your money goes about 1.6x further in Port-de-Paix than in the US, based on the current PPP estimate.
About Port-de-Paix
Port-de-Paix is a coastal city in the Nord-Ouest department of Haiti, on the country's northern coast facing Tortuga Island. Historically significant as one of the earliest Spanish and French colonial settlements in Hispaniola, the city today functions as a regional port and trade center with substantial informal commerce tied to imports from the United States and the Bahamas. The local economy combines fishing, agriculture, and remittances from the Haitian diaspora. French and Haitian Creole are both official, with Creole dominant in daily life. The climate is tropical with hurricane exposure. Haiti's broader security and political crisis since 2021, including widespread gang control across Port-au-Prince and parts of the country, makes foreign relocation effectively impractical outside humanitarian and diplomatic mandates.
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