Haiti’s Blackout Signals Prolonged Economic Contraction, Says World Bank

In 2025, only thirty percent of respondents to a survey cited by the World Bank said they lived in a household with access to electricity from any source.

“Measured in terms of total luminosity (the sum of lights across each area), Haiti’s nighttime lights declined by about half between 2018 and 2025, a result that is robust to the detection threshold used (a decline of about 49 to 56 percent). This corroborates the severe deterioration in GDP, but does not substitute for it,” reads the World Bank report Haiti: Growth Traject