Haiti vs Laos: Economic Indicators Comparison

Laos with a GDP of $18B ranked the 118th largest economy in the world, while Haiti ranked 144th with $9.7B. By GDP 5-years average growth and GDP per capita, Laos and Haiti ranked 11th vs 145th and 140th vs 176th, respectively.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Haiti	Laos
GDP	$9.7B	$18B
GDP growth, 1 year	1.5%	6.5%
GDP growth, 5-years average	1.6%	7%
Population	11M	6.9M
GDP per capita	$868	$2.5k
GDP per capita growth	0.2%	4.62%
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	30.43	2901.2
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.47	0.34
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$1.9k	$7.9k
GNI, Atlas method	$8.9B	$17.3B
GNI per capita	$800	$2.5k
GNI, PPP adjusted	$20.9B	$50.1B
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$1.9k	$7.1k

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Haiti	Laos
Income Tax Rate	30%	24%
Corporate Tax Rate	30%	24%
Inflation, consumer prices	13.5%	2%
Inflation, GDP deflator	12.8%	1.9%
Unemployment	13.5%	0.6%
Economic Freedom Index	52.3	55.5
Personal Freedom Index	7.33	5.8
Human Freedom Index	7.04	6.2
Property Rights Index	16.4	42.5
Judical Effectiveness Index	23.3	37.3
Business Freedom Index	33.6	54.3
Fiscal Health Index	96.3	53.3
Labor Freedom Index	62.3	58.6
Investment Freedom Index	45	35
Financial Freedom Index	30	20
Trade Freedom Index	67	82
Monetary Freedom Index	61.5	76.8
Government Spending Index	89.4	86.6
Tax Burden Index	80.2	87
Government Integrity Index	22.3	32
Corruption Perceptions Index	20	29
Life expectancy at birth, years	63.3	67.3
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	11.7	8.6
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	15.1	16.6
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	10	7
International tourism, number of arrivals	447k	3.8M

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Haiti	Laos
Central government debt, % of GDP	33%	63%
External debt stocks, % of GNI	22.8%	90.2%
External debt stocks	$2.2B	$15.6B
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	0%	41.2%
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	1.2%	14.6%
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	17.6%	-1.2%
Gross savings, % of GDP	24.4%	17.6%
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	29%	29%
Total reserves including gold	$2.4B	$980.4M
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$105M	$1.3B

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Haiti	Laos
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	17.1%	33.2%
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	58.5%	41.9%
Current account balance (balance of payments)	-$343M	-$1.4B
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	N/A	N/A
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$790.3M	$337.3M
Personal remittances received	$3.1B	$238.7M
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	66.2%	31.5%
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	18.9%	15.7%
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$577k	N/A
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	$25.3M	N/A
Expense, % of GDP	N/A	N/A
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	18.8%	21.1%